Daylight savings time

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?

Tagged as: hardware, software, time