Microsoft Issues Warning On Daylight-Saving Time Software Flaw

Vikingod · Feb 15, 2007, 04:37 PM

Source: InformationWeek
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Microsoft is warning customers that the switch to early daylight-saving time this year isn't accounted for in a number of its products, including Windows XP, and that users will need to update their software to avoid potential problems.

U.S. daylight-saving time will start on March 11 this year -- three weeks earlier than usual. The change was authorized by the U.S. Energy Policy Act of 2005, but Microsoft says its Y2K-like implications mean computer users need to parry like its 1999.

"Unless certain updates are applied to your computer, it is possible that the time zone settings for your computer's system clock may be incorrect during this four-week period," the software maker said in a statement issued Tuesday.

Judas · Feb 15, 2007, 05:23 PM

we don't have DST here.. so it "shouldn't" effect anything here...

BlueMak · Feb 15, 2007, 08:20 PM

What about non US?

The_Neon_Cowboy · Feb 16, 2007, 03:11 AM

that sucks! I set my date forward, and my time stayed so i think it's going to be falwed as i'm totally up to date on my windows updates

Feb 15, 2007, 04:37 PM	#1
Vikingod Int'l Fish Liaison Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: By the light of lamp I sit and type... Posts: 16,197 Rep Power: 112 System Specs	Microsoft Issues Warning On Daylight-Saving Time Software Flaw Source: InformationWeek __________ Microsoft is warning customers that the switch to early daylight-saving time this year isn't accounted for in a number of its products, including Windows XP, and that users will need to update their software to avoid potential problems. U.S. daylight-saving time will start on March 11 this year -- three weeks earlier than usual. The change was authorized by the U.S. Energy Policy Act of 2005, but Microsoft says its Y2K-like implications mean computer users need to parry like its 1999. "Unless certain updates are applied to your computer, it is possible that the time zone settings for your computer's system clock may be incorrect during this four-week period," the software maker said in a statement issued Tuesday.

Feb 15, 2007, 08:20 PM	#3
BlueMak HH's Asteroids' Dominator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Hellas->Macedonia->Thessaloniki Posts: 13,465 Rep Power: 349 System Specs	What about non US? __________________ The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm *Sic semper tyrannis.*

Feb 16, 2007, 03:11 AM	#4
The_Neon_Cowboy HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: U.S.A. Posts: 16,009 Rep Power: 92 System Specs	that sucks! I set my date forward, and my time stayed so i think it's going to be falwed as i'm totally up to date on my windows updates __________________