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ComputerWorld on DST updates from various IT vendors

Computerworld has an article today “DST: How to get IT vendors to give you the right time of day” that talks about how IT vendors are working to prepare and release patches, work-arounds and other fixes for products to address the new Daylight Saving Time (DST) impacts as I noted previously.


A sampling of some of the major IT vendors and the status of their patch availability are noted: IBM, Cisco, Sun and BEA are mentioned in addition to Microsoft.


For more info, visit http://www.microsoft.com/dst2007.

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Daylight saving time (DST) impacts on Windows Small Business Server 2003 (SBS 2003)

Sean on his Windows Small Business Server blog posted today that “there are no unique SBS 2003 updates required, although there are updates required to several SBS components (windows Server, Exchange Server, Outlook 2003, Windows SharePoint Services).”


This applies to all versions of SBS, That’s SBS RTM, SBS SP1, SBS R2, etc.


And as I said previously, please stay tuned for more information on a possible encore live event, as well as for general introduction and coverage of DST impacts: watch our Daylight Saving Time 2007 web page on Microsoft.com for more info. (Please see http://www.microsoft.com/dst2007.) 


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Office Online: Prepare your calendar items for daylight saving time changes in 2007

Office Online now has a new article (derived from an upcoming KB) “Prepare calendar items for daylight saving time changes in 2007” – please see http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA102086071033.aspx?pid=CH100776851033.


The article provides more details on the soon-to-be-available Outlook Time Zone Data Update tool and the situations where we’re recommending that users download and run the upcoming Outlook Time Zone Data Update Tool, which I have affectionately dubbed “Tzdut.”


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Your questions: are routers, telephones affected by Daylight Saving Time changes?

I heard this question come up a couple of times this week, the latest today: “I have a router on my home network: will it be affected by this Daylight Saving Time change?”

 

And “What about PBX phone systems?”

 

Generally speaking, no.

 

For the most part, I learned (thanks, Bob) that most telecom equipment does not utilize the system clock from the computer and, in businesses and enterprises, is updated manually during every DST change. This will allow the date/time on a desktop phone to be displayed correctly. For international voice traffic synchronization, you’ll often find that telephony equipment matches to a cesium clock that is maintained by the US government in Colorado.  These systems use a standard time — Coordinated Universal Time (aka UTC) — so there shouldn’t be any issue there. 

 

Also, Bob noted that “the vast majority of Network Equipment (>95%) uses GMT so is unaffected by the DST time change.”  


 

I’ll add that many popular routers utilize NTP using Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and is usually not impacted by individual time zone changes. Some routers may be configured to specific time zones, so it is best to check the documentation that comes with your system. For more info, also see Cisco’s NTP info page, with more than you will probably ever care to know about the subject.  😉

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Now available: WebCast on Windows 2000 updates for daylight saving time

In case you missed Jorge Lopez in the Support WebCast on Daylight Saving Time and Windows 2000, the WebCast is now available for off-line viewing here  (at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/930688/en-us). In it, Jorge covers the daylight saving time (DST) changes for 2007, and we also answered a number of questions on DST in general.


Offline viewing download: If you wish to download a copy of this broadcast to your local hard drive for playing off-line, we provide this as a separate file (.zip archive) that you can download.  (http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/5/3/8535cb71-6c90-4375-87fb-8908d692cb70/wc011807.wmv.zip


And please stay tuned for more information on a possible encore live event, as well as for general introduction and coverage of DST impacts: watch our Daylight Saving Time 2007 web page on Microsoft.com for more info. (Please see http://www.microsoft.com/dst2007.)  As I said 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.


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