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As of March 11, 2007 Daylight Savings Time (DST) begins three weeks earlier than in the past and runs one week longer.
DST ends November 4, 2007 at 2 AM (first Sunday in November).
The majority of computer-based devices, including computers, Personal Digital Assistants (P Das) and cell phones, have been pre-programmed with the historic version of DST and need updates.
Even though this change was decided more than a year ago, vendors only recently released patches to accommodate the change.
The most important aspect of this change is that changing Outlook calendars correctly requires individuals who set the meetings patch their clients. There are several aspects to this change:
- Please note that only the user's calendaring functions are affected. User log-ins, the transfer of email messages back and forth, contacts, address books, journal entries and tasks are not affected.
- Also note that changes to calendar events are changed only by the originating user. For example, after you make the changes, you should see them in the correct time for the meetings YOU originated. For meetings originated by others, they will have to make the change on their machines.
- Recurring appointments should be updated and sent to all participants by the originator
- Some calendar events that are set as All Day could end up spanning two days. For example, an all day meeting from midnight to midnight could end up starting at 11 PM the day before after the change.
- The change is made on a computer-by-computer basis. That is, if you are using Outlook or Entourage on different machines at home, you will have to update those machines as well.
- With changing instructions from Microsoft, I&IT cannot guarantee the completeness of the attached instructions. There is no one solution.
Below are instructions for updating Outlook, the leading Windows client that works with the campus’ Exchange Email server, and Entourage, the Macintosh version.
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To see reasons why you might need to upgrade, go to here (link opens in a new window).
Outlook Instructions
Below is an outline on how to update Outlook. For the latest full instructions from Microsoft, see DST.
- Before running calendar update tool, install all Microsoft windows updates (link opens in a new window). Note: To make sure that Microsoft Windows has the latest time zone data, install the update that is described in Microsoft Knowledge Base article 933360. The latest news regarding DST will be available at http://support.microsoft.com/gp/dst_hottopics (link opens in a new window). Users will not be impacted with this update as long as update KB 93360 is installed in user's system. This installation should have already been done in March 2007, so most users won't need to do anything.
For more information, view the "August 2007 cumulative time zone update for Microsoft Windows operating systems" KB 933360 article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933360/). Note: Each link opens in a new window.
- Print your calendar items for the current month. Remember, the tool will change appointments items you created and will send updates to your attendees of your meetings. So, it is important that others do the same procedure as specified by Microsoft.
- Download the Microsoft Tool to update Time Zone in Outlook Calendar Applications (link opens in a new window) and save it to your hard disk (e.g. C:, Desktop or My Document).
- Double-click the tzmove.exe program file on your hard disk to start the Setup program.
- Follow the instructions on screen to complete the installation.
- Choose your OUTLOOK MAILBOX from the Data File option.
Entourage Instructions
Note: Updates should already have been done in March 2007, so most users will not need to do anything.
If a user is on OS X 10.4.5 or above, no patch is needed.
If a user is on OS X 10.3, he/she only needs to make sure that he/she installs the updates shown in Apple's Software Update (link opens in a new window).
If a user is on OS X 10.2.8 or earlier, the adjustment needs to be done manually through the Date and Time control panel.
For more information, visit: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305056 (link opens in a new window).
- Print your Entourage calendar items for the current month. Remember, the tool will change appointments items you created. So, it is important that others do the same procedure as specified by Microsoft and Apple.
- Internet access is required to update your OS X with the latest security and system updates directly from Apple. Software Update, located in the Apple menu, will automatically download the latest Apple software.
- You must have internet connection to update your Entourage 2004 to version 11.3.4.
There are two methods to update your calendar items:
- From your computer Application folder, you can launch Microsoft Office Auto Update utility. Go to your Application folder and double click on "Microsoft AutoUpdate.app" Please, it might necessary to launch the utility and check for updates several times, specially, if you never updated your Entourage. You must install all previous updates and 11.3.4 to be successful for the new Time Zone change.
- Or, you can go to the Microsoft site and download the update. See the following page if you have older versions of Entourage. Download from here and click on
Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.3.4 Update. Note: Link opens in a new window.
Cell Phone-PDAs that Synchronize with Campus Email, Calendar, Contacts
Also affected are PDA cell phones that sync with Exchange. Information typically synched includes email, calendar items, contacts and notes.
Palm, one of two major operating system (OS) PDA vendors, has recommended the following models need a special update to accommodate the DST change::
Palm Operating System
Treo 700p
Treo 680, 650, 600
Treo 300, 270
LifeDrive
Tungsten T5,T3, T2
Tungsten C, E2, E, W
Zire 72, 31, 21
TX, Z22
Windows Mobile Operating System
Treo 750
Treo 700w
Treo 700wx
For additional information on cell phones, see the Palm site. Note: Link opens in a new window.
Microsoft DST Chat Room
Microsoft has set up a chat room on the DST changes. The Redmond, Wash., software giant's site includes several scheduled Question and Answer sessions with Microsoft DST experts. To investigate, see chat (link opens in a new window).
This page was last updated on August 23, 2007.
