Daylight savings time creates some new technical
Daylight saving time arrives a little earlier this year and stays a little later. But it's not just a change for people to adjust to. You may need to adjust your computer as well.
Daylight saving time arrives March 11 and stays in place until November 4.
Software created before the new schedule is set to automatically advance its timekeeping by one hour on the first Sunday in April, not the second Sunday in March.
The problem will show up not only in computers, but in things like some digital watches and clocks.
And, because the world is full of computer systems that have particular methods for accounting for time of day, experts say it's hard to know how widespread the problem will be.
A common fix is just to reprogram the machines with the updated start and end dates for daylight saving time.
Many technology providers have released downloadable software patches that do that.
Microsoft has just sent its daylight saving patch to Windows PCs with the "automatic update" feature.
The law mandating the change to daylight saving time passed in 2005.
Daylight saving time arrives March 11 and stays in place until November 4.
Software created before the new schedule is set to automatically advance its timekeeping by one hour on the first Sunday in April, not the second Sunday in March.
The problem will show up not only in computers, but in things like some digital watches and clocks.
And, because the world is full of computer systems that have particular methods for accounting for time of day, experts say it's hard to know how widespread the problem will be.
A common fix is just to reprogram the machines with the updated start and end dates for daylight saving time.
Many technology providers have released downloadable software patches that do that.
Microsoft has just sent its daylight saving patch to Windows PCs with the "automatic update" feature.
The law mandating the change to daylight saving time passed in 2005.
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quote:Originally posted by FrancF
Daylight saving time arrives a little earlier this year and stays a little later. But it's not just a change for people to adjust to. You may need to adjust your computer as well.
Daylight saving time arrives March 11 and stays in place until November 4.
Software created before the new schedule is set to automatically advance its timekeeping by one hour on the first Sunday in April, not the second Sunday in March.
The problem will show up not only in computers, but in things like some digital watches and clocks.
And, because the world is full of computer systems that have particular methods for accounting for time of day, experts say it's hard to know how widespread the problem will be.
A common fix is just to reprogram the machines with the updated start and end dates for daylight saving time.
Many technology providers have released downloadable software patches that do that.
Microsoft has just sent its daylight saving patch to Windows PCs with the "automatic update" feature.
The law mandating the change to daylight saving time passed in 2005.
Yeah...I was reading about that a while back...and it's all b/c some stupid politicians thought they needed to change things up on us...0 -
Wonder how this will work for GB auctions time wise[?] Since daylight savings time will be a month early and the computers will have to be manually changed, or use a software patch. 0 -
A whole new reason to hate DST. [V] [:(!] 0 -
It's All in the new name of global warming [:o)] 0 -
PICK A TIME!!!!! [:(!] 0 -
Why do we need to mess with the time anyway[?] Sun rise, Sun set. New Hunting/Fishing Hours will be changed![}:)]
EDIT: come to think of it- Fish and Game will be having a field day.0
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