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As I twittered today , there are a couple of new changes to daylight saving time in the world. You may already know about the changes to daylight saving time in Morocco as well as the new move to daylight saving time coming to Mauritius in October
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As I twittered today (geek gasp), I learned today that according to news reports ( here , en Francais), the ministry for the Modernization of the public sectors in Morocco just issued a notice that the country will change the clocks back on the midnight
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I received a question today similar to one I answered last year on the upcoming daylight saving time and time zone updates to Windows as ... "We updated our systems earlier this year for daylight saving time [the rules for the US and Canada]. Is there
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[Please note that I have revised this blog post, as of 081808.] As noted at http://www.afrol.com/articles/29955 late last month (July 23, 2008) and in L'Express newspaper , the government of Mauritius has decided to adopt Summer Time (as it's known in
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Now this is a positive move. Turkey is considering moving to daylight saving time (as noted here ). This year, it's business as usual, with Turkey's DST ending at the end of October. But what is particularly important to note: if approved by the government,
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A quick note to let you know that Knowledge Base article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/914387 " How to configure daylight saving time for Microsoft Windows operating systems " reflects the manual changes and additions DST and TZ. KB 914387 should contain
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A quick note to let you know that Knowledge Base article 914387 "How to configure daylight saving time for Microsoft Windows operating systems" has been updated to reflect the manual changes for Morocco and Pakistan. We've also updated the information
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I was asked last week (again) for guidance I could give (being involved in time in one way or another, in addition to my day job) on how Microsoft products may be impacted by the 2038 issue . As I noted in January , the Year 2038 problem (as defined by
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A popular question over the last few days... "What is going on in Iraq next week on daylight saving time?" As I noted earlier, it looks like Iraq will not observe daylight saving time this year . The change is currently scheduled to take effect on April
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As I initially reported , we now have it on reasonable authority that Iraq will not switch to daylight saving time as they have in the past, and as noted online and on the Hot Topics for Daylight Saving Time changes site. As we have more information,
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Microsoft has learned of a potential change to the observance of Daylight Saving Time (DST) in Iraq that may impact customers using the Baghdad time zone. An early, unsubstantiated report is that the Ministry of Iraq has decided that the country will
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Related to the regular updates made to our pages on time , Steven asked this week... "Is there something that customer can plug into, like subscribing to monthly security alerts, for DST [and, I'll add, time zone] updates?" No, not directly. You can enable
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I enjoy Angus Logan's blog , in particular, a recent post on what to do when you're drowning in email . But his new post calls out a great function on how to use Live Search to tell the time in <random city you have no idea where> . "I always find
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This past week, the government of Argentina approved a new change to their observance of daylight saving time in the country effective this Sunday, December 30, 2007 at 12:00am to March 16th, 12:00 for Argentina. (I cross posted this to the DST and Time
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This from Peter today... and two others this week (thanks): "Is there a patch for the new time zone in Venezuela for the windows mobile devices?" As noted previously, Venezuela's time zone shifts by 30 minutes on December 9th , and in addition to the
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