If you’ve been following this blog, you probably know that in most of the US and Canada, Daylight Savings Time goes into effect this Sunday, March 11. The Associated Press reports that IT managers and staffers are still working to patch hardware and software.
Meanwhile, according to CRN, computer and technology resellers are lambasting Microsoft for the software company’s sluggish development and release cycles for DST patches. Sun also announced that certain versions of Java may not handle time correctly in the Hawaiian, Pacific and Eastern time zones.
I received an e-mail today from MSN Direct about the DST settings for my watch. Yes, I wear a Microsoft watch. Among other features, the watch will display multiple US time zones, and it will set the correct time automatically. MSN is sending out a patch this weekend to fix the DST issue, using the service’s FM radio system.
Here are my other DST posts in this blog:
- March 5: Microsoft and Daylight Savings time
- February 13: Daylight Savings 2007 - this time it’s a mess
- February 5: Will computers know that daylight savings time starts early this year?
