Daylight Saving Time 2007
Beginning this year (2007), as some of you may or may not know by now, Daylight Saving Time begins 3 weeks earlier and ends a week later. This change is due to the Energy Policy Act of 2005. It is expected that the US will save approximately 10,000 Barrels of oil each day.
I beleive that Bill Gates had something to do with this.. It seems as though this year happens to be the year that mainstream support for Windows 2000 Server and Professional has ended.. So, this means no patch for all those Windows 2000 machines out there... UNLESS... You pay $4000 to extend that support... Or upgrade.... Or hire a techie, like me, to fix it for you.. Either way, if you are small business with Several 2000 machines still in production, your paying for this change in Daylight Saving Time..
There is hope, however. Microsoft did release a utility that makes it easy to change the DST settings on your PC. You can download the TZEDIT utility and read the instructions on it's use. This utility works on Windows NT 4.0 as well.
For everyone else using Windows XP or later, just run windows update and consider yourself patched....
Microsft Exchange, SQL, SMS and other server software needs to be patched as well.. Don't forget about fax machine, Blackberry's, Windows Mobile and other little electronic gadgets that display the date and time...
Just remember, all this work is for the good of the country.. :-)
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