SharePoint Products and Technologies and DST: Daylight Savings Time Update

re: SharePoint Products and Technologies and DST: Daylight Savings Time Update

Rich — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 23:59:32 GMT

Maybe its just me, but I don't understand that links to sharepoint patch for daylight savings time. Here are my questions.

* Do I patch the operating system and do the the manual change mentioned here (888253)?

* What about sql server 2005. How does this figure into the patch? (This is what I have for my sharepoint database.)

* Why doesn't this article for this patch (924881) even mention the change? Would this patch do anything for this particular problem?

Anybody done this yet? Any suggestions?

re: SharePoint Products and Technologies and DST: Daylight Savings Time Update

Bob Swanson — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:10:34 GMT

How to deploy Microsoft DST patches on all relevant servers, desktops and laptops:

http://www.isdecisions.com/en/software/remoteexec/2007-time-zone-update.htm

SharePoint and Daylight Savings Time

Mauro Cardarelli — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:11:54 GMT

There has been a lot of activity in the IT community recently about the upcoming Daylight Savings Time

re: SharePoint Products and Technologies and DST: Daylight Savings Time Update

Brenda Behan — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:15:18 GMT

We have installed the patch, but I would like to know how we test it? What function of SharePoint doesn't use the system time?

re: SharePoint Products and Technologies and DST: Daylight Savings Time Update

Darrell Johnson — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 02:10:25 GMT

We have installed the WSS DST patch and it seemed to cause a problem. We are no longer able to create top level site collections, and it appears like some components of Front Page 2002 extensions may have been installed (including _vti in the root of the SharePoint IIS Virtual Server. Please test this update in development!!

WSS v2 and DST: Daylight Savings Time Update problems...

Miguel Caron — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 20:04:58 GMT

We have updated our SharePoint servers following the Microsoft recommandations and now come up with this IMPORTANT problem: It is now impossible to insert Cross-site groups inside Site groups.

Can someone reproduce the problem?

Or as anyone experimented this problem?

If so please contact me at miguel.caron@snclavalin.com

Thanx,

Sharepoint and DST: just update timezone.xml to fix?

Paul Klump — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 21:18:45 GMT

From what I've read, the hotfix contains other fixes unrelated to the DST issue. If that's the case, could one just update the timezone.xml file, restart IIS, and the DST issue with Sharepoint would be fixed? I'd rather not install the entire hotfix until I've cleaned up all the DST issues with our other apps.

I've done some looking to see if I could download just the timezone.xml file that in the hotfix, or for a way to extract the XML file from the hotfix? Would anybody out there have any information on this? Thanks in advance.

re:Sharepoint and DST: just update timezone.xml to fix?

Paul Klump — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 01:05:39 GMT

Answered my own question...I found a freeware tool called Universal Extractor that allowed me to extract timezone.xml from the hotfix archive.

re: SharePoint Products and Technologies and DST: Daylight Savings Time Update

Don Dan — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 18:36:06 GMT

Does anyone know if the WSS DST patch can only be applied to SP2 and above ? ie, if we have a WSS server which has SP1 do we have to upgrade that to SP2 before we apply the WSS DST patch or can we install the WSS DST patch straight onto SP1 ?

re: SharePoint Products and Technologies and DST: Daylight Savings Time Update

Jose — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 21:45:31 GMT

Did anyone try just updating the timezone.xml to address DST? I saw from a previous comment that someone was going to try but no one commented on whether that was a viable option.

SharePoint 2003 and DST

Wes Preston — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:57:54 GMT

Reminder: Don't forget to update any SharePoint 2003 (v2) environments for the Daylight Savings change

re: SharePoint Products and Technologies and DST: Daylight Savings Time Update

Paul Klump — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 18:30:46 GMT

@Jose:

I plan updating timezone.xml on our system tonight. I extracted the updated xml file from the hotfix, and ran a diff between this file and one on our system to verify that the time zone changes are correct.

Microsoft describe how to manually edit timezone.xml in KB888253, and the process seems simple enough. So I don't see why copying the the updated timezone.xml file over and restarting IIS wouldn't work. Granted, I know very little about Sharepoint; I'm a recent hire at my job, and have never installed or performed admin tasks related to Sharepoint.

Would someone out there who is an experienced Sharepoint admin be able to chime in on the validity of this plan, and if they know of any way to test if Sharepoint deals with DST correctly after the timezone.xml update?

re: SharePoint Products and Technologies and DST: Daylight Savings Time Update

Paul Klump — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 04:48:14 GMT

I just copied the updated timezone.xml file over and restarted IIS, and the Sharepoint server is working as it should. Of course, I don't know of a way to test to make sure DST is all set. Any ideas out there?

re: SharePoint Products and Technologies and DST: Daylight Savings Time Update

Brian — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 20:34:55 GMT

I don't know if it's all there is to it but, change the system clock into DST and check that the timestamp is correct when you add files or list items.

Key US Daylight Savings Time Information

Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 04:49:40 GMT

Just had got some great very complete information from product support about the upcoming Daylight Savings

Key US Daylight Savings Time Information

RSS It All — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 11:25:14 GMT

Just had got some great very complete information from product support about the upcoming Daylight Savings

re: SharePoint Products and Technologies and DST: Daylight Savings Time Update

Paul Klump — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 17:16:20 GMT

@Brian:

Thanks for the info. I just uploaded a Word doc to our Sharepoint server, and the timestamp on the modified date is correct.

Hope everyone out there is have a quiet day, DST-wise... :)

Important hotfixes for upcoming Daylight Savings Time (DST) change

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Important MOSS hotfixes for upcoming Daylight Savings Time (DST) change

Bart Wessels' Blog — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:31:35 GMT

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