Day Light Savings Time

The Federal Government has made a change to Day Light Savings Time. Starting this year Day Light Saving time will move ahead one hour on March 11, 2007 instead of April 1, 2007 and 'fall back' an hour on November 4, 2007 instead of October 28, 2007. As a result of this change, all computer Operating Systems and Outlook Calendars will need to be updated.

Windows users:

If your computer is on Active Directory the Operating System and your Outlook calendar will be updated automatically by the Operations and System Integration Department. If your computer is not on Active Directory instructions on how to update your computers Operating System can be found below. Please View/Download the instruction packet BEFORE downloading the file:

         
         
   

Instructions (.pdf)

  

Download File
  Window XP Users:  
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If you have the Security Update,
no further action is needed
   
   
   
       
   
   
   
 
  Windows 2000 Users:  
   
 
  Windows 98/ME Users:  
       

 

Palm users:

This change also affects users that have Palms. The Palms will need to be updated manually.

  1. Tap on the Prefs application in the Application Launcher screen.
  2. Tap on Date & Time
  3. Tap on the Location and scroll down to see Edit List.
  4. At the Edit List screen, tap on your location and tap Edit.
  5. Tap on the check box beside ‘This location observes Daylight Saving Time’ to put a check.
  6. Tap on Start and choose second Sunday of March.
  7. Tap OK.
  8. Tap on End and select first Sunday of November.
 
 

Macintosh users:

If you have a Macintosh computer with Mac OS X 10.4.5 or later then the Operating System does not require an update. If you would still like to do an update to the Macintosh Operating System Apple has posted instructions at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106704

 
 
 

All Outlook users:

As a precaution all users should give extra attention to meetings and appointments scheduled between March 11, 2007 to April 1, 2007 and October 28, 2007 to November 4, 2007. Users should view any appointments that fall into these date ranges as suspect until they communicate with all meeting invitees to make sure that the item shows up correctly on everyone's calendar both internally and externally. To minimize confusion during the affected date ranges:

  • Include the time of the meeting in the e-mail request so that invitees can double check the correct meeting time (such as, "Project brainstorming - 11:00 A.M. Central Time").
  • Exercise caution with the appointments and meetings scheduled between March 11, 2007 to April 1, 2007 and October 28, 2007 to November 4, 2007. When in doubt, verify the correct time with the organizer.
     
     
     
     
   
   

If you have any further questions,
please call the Help Desk at 281-9090.