I'm posting some information courtesy of our Outlook team as we just released the hotfix package for the Outlook Time Zone Data Update Tool. For more details please refer to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933146 . Steps to reporting the changes...

MSN Tech & Gadgets has an article this week, "Time to Reset," on preparing for daylight saving time. (See http://tech.msn.com/howto/article.aspx?cp-documentid=3318115 .) "For example, London will be four hours ahead of New York, not the usual...

In order to be prepared for the DST 2007 changes, we recommend that customers install the Windows OS update for DST ( KB 931836 , also available via Microsoft Update if you don't want to wait for it to install via Automatic Updates ). When you install...

As I noted previously, we started hosting technical chats on daylight saving time on thursday . Now we're hosting daily chats starting tomorrow and through March 13th: 2007 daylight saving time transition Q&A Description: The change in start...

An FYI that we are hosting daily daylight saving time Technical Chat sessions for customers beginning tomorrow from 10:00am-2:00pm Pacific. To participate in a technical chat with a Microsoft subject matter expert on DST please point your customers to...

I received a question from a customer who had applied the Windows OS update for daylight saving time in 2007 (kb 931836) . They said that they noticed that after the update was applied, events in past years also adjucted to the new DST rules as well....

Our public webcast of last Tuesday on how our own IT group is handling the changes related to daylight saving time is now available for public access here . We're also offering a series of new webcasts over the next two weeks to help organizations...

A question I received this weekend: "Where did minutes and hours originate?" Look no further than to the page on NIST's site for general history of clocks, calendars and daylight saving time: "A sundial described in 1300 BCE reveals that the...

I noticed that this week Apple updated their web page on daylight saving time (launched at the end of January 2007). Apple also released Java updates for Macintosh OS X version 10.3 and version 10.4 that accomodates the latest Daylight Saving Time...

In my last home town newspaper, the venerable Mercury News , there's an interesting entry on the gmsv blog: " Next, we plan to send researchers to actually live among the TiVo people and study their mysterious ways " that cites this New York Times story...

Joris Evers quoted me this week in his CNET article "Wake up to the 'daylight-saving' bug" on the changes in 2007 to daylight saving time (DST). I listen to his security webcasts and I enjoy his articles. "There has been a great deal of speculation...

Our own Rich Kaplan on the local ABC news covering the upcoming daylight saving time changes. "Of course, it's likely not everyone would take that step, said Rich Kaplan, a Microsoft customer service vice president who oversaw the company's Y2K...

As I noted previously re: our MSIT webcast covering the impact of daylight saving time at Microsoft , here are the links to the documents and guidance the team referenced. MSIT DST Assessment Checklist: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=83000...

We held a public webcast that was very well attended... I'll include the link when I have it handy. Today we were joined by some of the intrepid folks from MSIT (thanks, Jan, Bob & Mike) as they talked about how Microsoft's Information Technology...

"How is daylight saving time set in Israel?" A good ref on how DST is followed in Israel is on the webexhibits page at http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/g.html#i . Note that this is the same website that the US Dept of Engergy (the agency responsible...

This courtesy of the WinMobile team.... (thanks, Chris!): instructions for Windows Mobile users who connect to a PC, and users who do not connect to their PC, on how to update your devices for the upcoming daylight saving time (DST ) changes after you...

This from a blog reader... "I saw the photo essay on Steve Ballmer in the New York Times and one picture with Lisa Brummell . Any idea what that 'simplicity' book is on her desk? And do you ever sleep? :)" I believe the book in question is "Simplicity...

A reader sent a comment (thanks, Mike) that he was "glad to see this (DST 2007) is getting press." This reminded me: in case you missed it... the Jan./Feb. 2007 issues of IT Pro magazine has the article "Are You Prepared for Daylight Saving Time 2007...

A special note to users of Microsoft Outlook on a Windows Mobile-based device: an update for Windows Mobile will be available on the Web by February 12, 2007. To download this update, visit the following Microsoft Web site on or after February 12, 2007...

I had the pleasure of speaking today with ZDNet 's Mary Jo Foley about the upcoming Daylight Saving Time change and her Tips for Microsoft users . She blogs that the change is about a one month away until the new Daylight Saving Time (DST) changes take...

It'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...

I've written previously about ABC's success providing current, popular TV shows on the web had been a success, saying that 50 million TV episodes requested by web viewers since September, and that "free, ad-supported shows are attracting a younger audience...

First off, this guidance is not for the novice. If you're not sure about how to use certain tools or update your registry, think twice before you mess around with your operating system files or manually configuring daylight saving time dates by modifying...

I think that I may have to change the name of my blog to the Daylight Saving Time 2007 Blog. ;) This from a call today "do we need to update all of our PCs and Servers for Daylight Saving Time? We have operations outside the US and Canada, so do we...

It's great when I receive a question that is also answered in the press on the same day. I was asked via mail if "my favourite Windows XP applications will run on Windows Vista?" Patrick Marshall of The Seattle Times answers that questionin his Technology...