Daylight Savings Time is ending, time to fall back


Posted by Nick White on Saturday, November 03, 2007 11:18 AM 9 Comments

In 2007, Daylight Savings Time started on 11th March 2007, three weeks earlier than normal.  Daylight Savings Time is ending this year one week later than usual, on 4th November (tomorrow).  Because in 2007 we've had four more weeks of Daylight Savings Time, your PC's date and time may be affected when Daylight Savings Time ends this weekend.

If you are a Windows Vista user and have Automatic Updates configured for Windows Update, you most likely already have the necessary update to ensure your date and time will make the change come the 4th.

However, if you are unsure whether your Windows Vista PC has the update, you can go to the Daylight Savings Time Help and Support Center at Microsoft.com and use the associated wizard to get the necessary update for your PC.  If your Windows Vista PC already has the update, when attempting to install the update you will be alerted that it does not apply to your system.

Another way to check to see if your Windows Vista PC has the correct update for this weekend's time change is to click on the clock in the lower right-hand corner of the taskbar.  A pop-up will appear with the date and time and an alert about Daylight Savings Time ending on 4th November and that your PC will automatically fall back one hour at 2:00am on that date.

Daylight Savings Time - Ending Nov. 4th, 2007 

You can click here to see a list of all Microsoft products affected by Daylight Savings Time and the necessary updates needed for these products to properly accept the changes to Daylight Savings Time this year.

 

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Posted by StophVista


"if you are unsure whether your Windows Vista PC has the update" Doesn't Vista have it with out any updates (in RTM)? XP and anything earlier than Vista needs the update though.

 

Posted by Nick White


Hey StophVista:  if you read KB 933360 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933360/en-us), you'll see that changes were signed into law after Windows Vista wsa released, hence the need for a KB release.

 

Posted by chakkaradeep


The DST changes for NZ was a great success for Microsoft here(NZ). There was no manual intervention by users and dates got changed automatically without any hassles. Infact Microsoft was the only OS which had not seen more problems with DST changes here in NZ which also includes changes to Outlook and other Calendar tools :)

 

Posted by Project Mayu


I glad they got rid of daylight saving where i live, it just messes you up. Just wish my Windows CE 2 device, would not keep auto adjusting the time.

 

Posted by newscientist2000


Yeah my MAC OS 9 computer at work messed up, pain in the but, goes back about 100 years on the clock ever time.  Kinda like that Excel error that messed up due to the dates starting at 1904 instead of 1900.  No idea why the MAC does it, its just annoying.  

Its just nice when things work!

 

Posted by mollyfud


Wow, thats the shortest Daylight Saving ever! Just last week we moved the clock Forward an hour! Oh, you forgot to mention thats for the northern hemisphere. Don't forget that blogs are Global. Yes picky I know but.....

Molly

 

Posted by Tesmond


I live in the UK I had to manually alter my Vista Ultimate 64bit edition time (even though it was fully up to date)  On the Thursday it changed to "daylight savings time", but this was an hour out, so I had to manually change it back.  No problems on my XP 64bit professional which changed as expected.

I did change the timezone and everything on my vista machine, and it also claimed to have successfully installed all updates...

 

Posted by imipolex


Any chance you could fix the repeated typos in your post here, Nick? It's daylight saving time, not daylight savings time - look at the Vista screen shot you posted if you need confirmation. :)

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