Simple Explanation:
The U.S. Energy Policy Act of 2005, passed by the U.S. Congress July, 2005, extended Daylight Saving Time (DST) in the U.S. by approximately four weeks. As a result, beginning in 2007, DST will start three weeks earlier on March 11, 2007, and end one week later on November 4, 2007, resulting in a new DST period that is four weeks longer than previously observed.
Unless you apply certain updates to your computer, the time zone settings for your computer's system clock may be incorrect during this four week period, which can affect the performance of time-based operations (calendar, auto updates, scans, etc.).
2007-02-19 03:09:45 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
More than likely the link given was to spyware or something of that order.
Download the program tzedit.exe DIRECTLY from Microsoft. Use it to set daylight saving to begin on the 2nd Sunday in March and end on the 1st Sunday in November. This should work for Windows 95 thru XP. Do NOT download anything from anywhere except Microsoft!
2007-02-19 03:33:50 · answer #1 · answered by Thinker 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is true, however, you may not have to manually apply the updates to your computer, it may do it automatically depending on which operating system you use.
Here is a snippet from the Wikipedia page:
In 2006
The schedule for 2006 in the United States was that DST began on the first Sunday in April (April 2, 2006), and changed back to standard time on the last Sunday in October (October 29, 2006). The time is adjusted at 2 AM local time.
Time Zone Standard Time Daylight Saving
USA Eastern -5 hours (02:02) -4 hours
USA Central -6 hours (01:02) -5 hours
USA Mountain -7 hours (00:02) -6 hours
USA Arizona -7 hours (00:02)
USA Pacific -8 hours (23:02) -7 hours
USA Alaska -9 hours (22:02) -8 hours
USA Aleutian -10 hours (21:02)
USA Hawaii -10 hours (21:02)
Current local times in 24-hour format are in parentheses.
From 2007
Beginning in 2007, DST will start on the second Sunday in March (March 11, 2007), and change back to standard time on the first Sunday in November (November 4, 2007). Under Section 110 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, the U.S. Department of Energy is required to study the impact of the DST extension no later than nine months after the change takes effect. Congress has retained the right to revert to the DST schedule set in 1986 if it cannot be shown that there are significant energy savings from an extension of DST or if the extension may prove to be unpopular with the American public. One potential issue is that some northern regions on the western edge of time zones will, for the first time since the 1974-75 "almost year round" DST experiment, have sunrise times that occur after 8am.
2007-02-19 03:26:50 · answer #2 · answered by ToriAnn55 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If someone is asking you to perform updates to your computer other than the software manufacturer, that's almost certainly a trojan horse.
The part about DST being different this year is true.
Assuming that you're running Windows, use Microsoft Update to get the current set of fixes.
2007-02-19 03:14:29 · answer #3 · answered by tony1athome 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The information in this email is not a hoax. We are dealing with this issue at work right now. (I work in the IT dept of a med school). However, I am not sure what updates this email is telling you to update. So, don't download them unless you are 100% sure that is not a virus. Most vendors are not sending emails. It is up to you to go to their site and download the update patch.
2007-02-19 03:14:17 · answer #4 · answered by TwinkaTee 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes. I heard that on the news. I think they should abolish daylight saving time like the Great State of Arizona has.
2007-02-19 03:13:25 · answer #5 · answered by tumbleweed1954 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If the email contains any sort of link, it goes beyond a hoax into a phishing attempt. If there's no link, then yes, it's a hoax. Either way, delete it, never click on anything inside it.
2007-02-19 03:14:08 · answer #6 · answered by Erick 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, I don't think it is a hoax. I've heard about it on the news as well. I would agree with the others that say don't update your pc from the email you received. Very risky.
2007-02-19 03:14:36 · answer #7 · answered by 1dayatatime 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, this isn't a hoax.
Microsoft has updates on their site for the change to Outlook in case you use it, and most other programs should have patches available soon.
2007-02-19 03:13:23 · answer #8 · answered by amazingant111 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You should consider that any info like this that you find in your email inbox is a hoax.
Unless you recieved this off of CNN or another official goverenment site, you should suspect otherwise.
2007-02-19 03:18:17 · answer #9 · answered by pepsicolastar 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No it is true my daughter read in in USA Today for her school work. You are right about the computers though, it only makes sense
2007-02-19 03:14:34 · answer #10 · answered by justme 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋