The U.S. Energy Policy Act of 2005, passed by the U.S. Congress July, 2005, extended Daylight Saving Time (DST) in the U.S. by approximately four weeks. As a result, beginning in 2007, DST will start three weeks earlier on March 11, 2007, and end one week later on November 4, 2007, resulting in a new DST period that is four weeks longer than previously observed.

Unless certain updates are applied to servers, workstations, and PDAs, it is possible that the time zone settings may be incorrect during this four week period. When your time zone settings are incorrect your clock may be off by one hour, and certain applications may not display the correct time. Even if patches are applied, you will have to be extra careful about mail and calendaring during the extended DST period, because of possible bugs, errors, or missed patches.

Affected products include Windows Server operating system, Exchange and Lotus Notes mail servers, Blackberry Enterprise Server, and the operating system and mail programs (such as Outlook) on your workstations, laptops, and PDA’s.

We are currently testing the needed patches, and will be posting information about this on our website soon, including some of the patches.

For more information from Microsoft on this issue, Click Here or contact us at the email address below.

Thank you!

The TerraSage Team
support@terrasage.com