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Well for starters, bump your clock ahead an hour at 2AM on Sunday night (March 11th)

This year is the first for the new daylight saving time change brought to you by the United States!  DST will start the second Sunday in March and end the first Sunday in November.

What does this mean for your computer??

Windows XP & 2003 – Do your Windows Updates or the install the patch manually (KB931386)

Windows  2000 Pro/Server – If you don’t have a service contract with Microsoft, sucks to be you, pay the $4000 (since it’s no longer supported) OR use Tzedit.exe OR install the unofficial patch

Exchange Server 5.5 or 2000 - your screwed bite the bullet, your appointments will show up an hour later through Outlook Web Access or any applications that use CDO.  You’re not totally screwed, if you really need it patched, pay the $4000

Exchange Server 2003 - If you still have SP1, install KB931978.  If you have SP2, install the KB926666. Once you’re done, run the Outlook tool (tzmove.exe) on your workstations.  If you like Microsoft instructions you can attempt to run the Exchange tool (KB930879), it will save you from running the Outlook tool on every workstation.  If your users are smart enough, save yourself the trouble and get them to run the Outlook tool.

For your PDA (be careful in which order you install & BACKUP before start!!!) – Treo with Palm OS, Treo with Windows OS, Blackberry

Mac OS X 10.4.5 or later – Already up to date for U.S. and most of Canada (except Alberta and B.C.) but you should still run the software update to get the latest DST update

Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger – Install 10.4.8  Tiger and the DST update
Mac OS X 10.3 Panther – Install 10.3.9 Panther and the DST update

Mac OS 9 to 10.2.8  – Open the “Date and Time” control panel, deselect the option to adjust daylight saving time automatically and change the clock yourself.

I hope this helps you.  I know it’s a pain in the ass to try and find all this info so I thought I would give you the short version.  One thing I didn’t mention was Java, look that one up yourself.

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