New Zealand 2007 Daylight Saving Changes : Daylight Savings

Daylight Saving is coming

nzdst — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 02:01:30 GMT

Hi All,

In April 2007 the New Zealand Government announced an update to the Time Act of 1974. This update changed the dates of both the start and end of daylight saving time (DST). When this law went into effect in 2007, daylight savings time started one week earlier (2:00 A.M. on the 30th September 2007) and ended two weeks later (3:00 A.M. on 6th April 2008) than past years. Click here for more information from the New Zealand Government.
A number of Microsoft products required updates for the new daylight saving changes, as well as rebasing (moving) calendar events in Exchange – If you went through this process last year, then there is no further action required for New Zealand time zone updates. The only consideration you may want to check is that the updated timezone records have been applied to your Windows Mobile devices.

· Windows Mobile 6.0 Standard and Professional - KB941898

· Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone, Pocket PC Phone Edition an Pocket PC - KB941898

If you have any questions about DST, you can contact Microsoft on one of the following:

New Zealand customers: call 0800 800 004 or refer to support.microsoft.com

Australian customers: call 13 20 58 or refer to support.microsoft.com

Nick.

New Zealand Daylight Savings ending on the 6th of April.

nzdst — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:09:00 GMT

Hi All,

A reminder that this year, daylight savings ends two weeks later than previous years due the law changes introduced in April last year. This year, daylight savings ends at 3am on 6^th of April 2008. For more information on products affected, patches that needed to be applied prior to daylight savings starting, guidance and other resources, please refer to the New Zealand Daylight Savings Website.

Nick

Australia Eastern & Central 2008 Daylight Saving Changes

nzdst — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:36:00 GMT

Hi All,

Australia Eastern (New South Wales, Victoria, Australian Capital Territory and Tasmania) and Central (South Australia) time zones will extend daylight saving and also harmonise start and end times commencing April 2008. From April 2008, daylight saving will end on the first Sunday in April and recommence on the first Sunday in October in all states. See the Australian Government Time web site for more information.

Windows Time Zone	Location(s)	End 3 am daylight time		Start 2 am standard time
		Current	New	Current	New
(GMT+09:30) Adelaide	South Australia	Last Sunday March	First Sunday April	Last Sunday October	First Sunday October
(GMT+10:00) Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney	New South Wales; Australian Capital Territory; Victoria
(GMT+10:00) Hobart	Tasmania			First Sunday October

This change affects Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office Outlook and other Microsoft, third party and custom applications:

All Microsoft Windows PC, server and mobile devices in the affected time zones will need to be updated.
Microsoft Office Outlook calendars may need to be adjusted. Client and Server-based tools to automate this process are available (see 'Adjusting Office Outlook Calendars' below).
Microsoft, third party and custom applications which schedule events at future dates should be reviewed to ensure they will operate correctly during the extended daylight saving period. Previously scheduled events may also need to be adjusted.
Microsoft recommends that all PC and server systems are updated regardless of location to ensure consistency of operation.

A complete list of affected Microsoft products appears below. This page is updated regularly as information about products and updates becomes available.

For information on other recent daylight saving in Australia and New Zealand, click here. Refer to the Daylight Saving Time Help and Support Centre for further information on daylight saving, including the 2007 changes in North America. If you have any other questions about the daylight saving changes or require further assistance, contact Microsoft Help and Support.

The Australia 2008 Daylight Saving Planning Guide is now available for download. This document is aimed at medium to large organisations and provides detailed guidance on preparing your Microsoft solutions for the changes in daylight saving. Click on the links below to download the document in your preferred format:

Australia Daylight Saving Planning Guide (Word)
Australia Daylight Saving Planning Guide (XPS)
Australia Daylight Saving Planning Guide (PDF)

For more information, please refer here - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-au/bb887637.aspx

Nick.

New Zealand time zone differs between Windows Vista and down-level Windows OSes - 1st of January is approaching!

nzdst — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:24:00 GMT

Hi All,

We sent this information out in September during the mad rush of customers preparing for the Daylight Savings change, however this may have fallen off the radar for customers running Vista and Outlook. Customers running Windows Vista and Outlook will need to rebase their calendars again after the 1st of January (and as close to the 1st of January as possible).

Please refer to this post for more information
- http://blogs.msdn.com/nzdst/archive/2007/09/20/new-zealand-time-zone-differs-between-windows-vista-and-down-level-windows-oses.aspx

Nick.

December 2007 cumulative time zone update for Microsoft Windows Operating Systems

nzdst — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:53:00 GMT

Hi All,

This update supersedes and replaces update 933360, which was released in August 2007. This update also includes additional time zone changes that were signed in to law after update 933360 was created. If you have already deployed update 933360, read the descriptions of the specific time zone changes that are addressed in this Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) article to determine whether you must deploy this update immediately. If systems are not directly affected, you can schedule deployment at the next available opportunity. We recommend that you deploy the most current Windows cumulative time zone update to guarantee the consistency of the time zone database on all systems.

Important Before you apply the update that is described in this article, be aware of potential issues that may affect Microsoft Office Outlook. For more information about these issues, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

931667 How to address the daylight saving time changes in 2007 by using the Time Zone Data Update Tool for Microsoft Office Outlook

Important

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If you are running Microsoft Exchange Server in an Information Technology (IT) environment, you must take additional measures to guarantee the correct operation of Exchange Server. For more information about the Exchange daylight saving time (DST) update, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

941018 How to address daylight saving time by using the Exchange Calendar Update Tool

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Cumulative time zone updates contain only data that has changed for a specific region or that has been added to maintain parity with other operating system versions. Therefore, if a time zone key has been deleted, some original values may not be restored after you apply the cumulative zone update. We do not recommend that you delete any registry keys that are related to time zones. On a computer that has incomplete time zone keys, first restore the time zone keys from a known good backup. Then, apply the update.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/942763

The above packages will be pushed out via Windows Update 11 of December (US Pacific Time) and when Custom Support Agreement packages will be available via connect.

Nick.

Australia DST updates

nzdst — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 01:23:00 GMT

Hi All,

Australia Eastern & Central 2008 Daylight Saving Changes

Australia Eastern (New South Wales, Victoria, Australia Capital Territory and Tasmania) and Central (South Australia) time zones will extend daylight saving and also harmonise start and end times commencing April 2008. From April 2008, daylight saving will end on the first Sunday in April and recommence on the first Sunday in October in all states. See the Australian Government Time web site for more information.

For more information on the products affected and updates available, please visit this site.

Western Australia Daylight Saving Trial 2006 – 2009

For more information on the products affected and updates available, please visit this site.

Nick

Mac OS X: Adjusting Date & Time for New Zealand Daylight Saving Time in late 2007

nzdst — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 05:14:00 GMT

Hi All,

We've had a number of support calls from customers who are running Mac OS X and Entourage who are concerned with the guidance supplied by Apple which was to manually move the time after the 30th of September 2007.

Here is the Apple KB article - http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306486

A third party workaround has been posted to the web which should address this issue - http://www.mactcp.org.nz/nzdt.html. As always, we stress that testing should always be done before rolling this out to production systems.

DISCLAIMER - This is completely unsupported by Microsoft and therefore we offer no warranty or support if you choose to utilise information in this posting.

Also see NZDST - Updates for Entourage

Nick.

The latest version of the NZ DST Guidance Document (version 1.4) is now available

nzdst — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 03:57:00 GMT

Hi All,

I have updated the guidance document and this is now available for download in XPS and PDF formats.

Updates include:

Updating information on the Exchange Rebasing tool
Providing reference material on TzMove and Exchange rebasing tools
Adding links to instructional videos
Adding NZ DST Blog as reference in the Resources section
Updating downloads section to reference KB article names rather than a generic 'download' link
Adding information on the /REPORTINGMODE flag of TzMove
Updating information in the Automation section to link directly to the reg file and script as this was causing pain for customers having to re-format it.

Nick.

Tzmove and /forcerebasesuppressallupdates

nzdst — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:11:00 GMT

Hi All,

We have had a few questions about Tzmove and using the /forcerebasesuppressallupdates switch.

We do not recommend that customers use the /forcerebasesuppressallupdates switch with tzmove because ALL appointments in a users Calendar are updated regardless of who the organizer of the meeting is. In addition, no updates to meetings are sent out to any attendees. The difficulty that is introduced due to these two factors is that every Calendar that has meetings in the organization has to have the /forcerebasesuppressallupdates command-line switch ran on their Calendar within a very short period of time. It’s difficult to coordinate this and it goes against how Outlook is designed to update meetings through meeting updates.

One example of the type of problem you could encounter would be if one user sent out a meeting series to 10 people and 5 of them already had the /forcerebasesuppressallupdates switch ran. When the remaining 5 have /forcerebasesuppressallupdates ran then those appointments will be at a different time than the other attendees and possibly even different than the organizer. In addition, meeting attendees that are outside of the Exchange organization would not get meeting updates so they would likely have to manually move those appointments or the appointments would be incorrect. There are other scenarios but you probably get the point.

As far as running the tool from the command-line. The syntax you are looking for is as follows with “User” being the mailbox owner:

tzmove /Q /FORCEREBASESUPPRESSALLUPDATES \\Mailbox - User\Calendar

Since you are using the /Q switch then you should look at the TZMOVE events in the Application Event log for information regarding how the tool executed.

Generally speaking we don't recommend that /FORCEREBASESUPPRESSALLUPDATES be used with user calendars, noting the risks in the "Issues" sections of http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933146.

See also http://blogs.technet.com/dst2007/pages/quick-reference.aspx

Nick.

SAP and NZ Daylight Saving Time Changes

nzdst — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 08:48:00 GMT

SAP Note No. 1080797 07.08.2007 Page 1
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     Number              1080797
     Version             2 from 07.08.2007
     Status              Released for Customer
     Set on              07.08.2007

     Language            EN
     Master language     DE
     Short text          Begin date & end date of DST in New Zealand as of
     Sept 2007

     Responsible         Ulrich Weber
     Component           BC-SRV-TIM-TZ
                         Time zones
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Long text

     Symptom
     As of the summer 2007/2008, the start date and the end date of the DST
     are changed in New Zealand. DST starts on September 30, 2007 at 2
     o'clock a.m. and ends on April 6, 2008 at 3 o'clock a.m.
     The DST starts in New Zealand now on the last Sunday in September and
     ends on the first Sunday in April.

Other terms
DST, daylight saving time

Reason and Prerequisites
None.

Solution

1. In the IMG, call the maintenance dialog for the daylight saving time
rules:

         Call transaction STZBC - "Variable Summer time rules" view (or call
         the IMG activity "General Settings" -> "Time zones" -> "Maintain
         Time Zones")

2. Create a new entry with the following data:

- DST rule: NEWZEA

- Valid from: 2007

- Start Mon.: 9 (September)

- Start Day: 1 (Sunday)

- Strt DayMo.: 5 (last occurrence of that particular weekday in
the month)

- Start Time: 02:00:00

- End Month: 4 (April)

- End Day: 1 (Sunday)
Page 2

- End Day/Mo.: 1 (1. (first occurrence of that particular
weekday in the month)

- End Time: 03:00:00

These changes are available in the attachment to Note 198411 as of
Version TZ_2007_V04.

     Note that you should not delete old entries in the daylight saving time
     rules (for example, entries valid as of 1990), because these entries
     will still be required for the correct conversion of data prior to 2007.

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     Valid releases
     Software Component                        Release
                                               from            to
     SAP_BASIS
          SAP Basis component
                                               710          - 710
                                               700          - 700
                                               620          - 640
                                               46C          - 46C

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Reference to related Notes

     Number    Short text
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     198411    Current data and information about time zones

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