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Daylight Saving Time site on Micorsoft.com: A new look and feel

New MScom DST 2007 SiteIt’s the end of another work week and guess what: it’s time once again to update our Daylight Saving Time 2007 Web page on Microsoft.com. (Please see http://www.microsoft.com/dst2007.)


What do you think?


As I noted previously, this public page on the Microsoft.com site will be revised regularly to include new product updates, compatibility information and links to Knowledge Base articles. This week we have a few new additions, including the latest February 2007 cumulative time zone update for Microsoft Windows operating systems (KB article 931836). 


And here’s an update on the quick search query on Live Search for DST in 2007: there’s now 280,783 results: that’s more than 100,000 additional results added in the last couple of weeks,  with more than 513,000 results (+100K) for DST alone. I’ll go out on a limb and estimate that we eclipse 1,000,000 by March 11, 2007.


In the news: As Dan Farber noted, “Research firm Gartner cautioned that infrastructure and application level disruptions are likely to occur, especially within calendaring, billing applications and security applications, as well as in handling travel and trading schedules, starting March 11.”


A repeat: someone asked me today if I would again provide the links of where to send your feedback on DST: here you go…



Whether you agree or disagree with the change to DST, what can you do? For starters, write your state and federal government officials and let them know: in the States, you can find more information on contacting your senators and representatives in DC by going to http://www.usa.gov/Agencies/Federal/Legislative.shtml. The EFF has a website to help you contact US policymakers: http://www.eff.org/congress/.


And remember: even though you may not live in the US or Canada where the changes will be felt, people around the world will be impacted, particularly companies with operations, offices, subsidiaries or connectivity to systems based in the US, Canada or Mexico. This change to US DST has a global impact, so if you live outside the US and Canada, consider contacting your own government officials and tell them what you think.


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4 replies on “Daylight Saving Time site on Micorsoft.com: A new look and feel”

Sorry for being a little picky, but the scrolling frame around the content seems confining.  It would be better if the content filled the page.

Thanks, Doug. I’m a bit claustrophobic myself. I also agree with you on the layout, and provided the feedback to the team.

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