What is happening with DST and PCs in the US?

Question

I have heard that there are problems with PCs in the US around Daylight Savings Time. Is this true?

Answer 1

It means, if anything, that you have to turn the clock in your computer ahead on Sunday (like all your other clocks) and then, just possibly, to correct it if the machine tries to repeat the time change in three weeks. I say possibly, because probably you've already downloaded a patch that will make the correction for you automatically.

This business about Y2K and Daylight Saving Time has to be one of the most exaggerated, slow-news-day, dog-bites-man stories there's ever been. Already, diverse parts of the world do their Daylight Saving Time under a myriad of different rules.

Europe never did start its Summer Time on the same day as North America. It's always Last Sunday of March there. Australia (and different states in Australia have different rules), New Zealand, Chile, Brazil, Israel, the Arab world, all have different DST rules. From all accounts, their computers work as well as ours.

Many countries have changed their rules very recently. The state of Western Australia started Daylight Saving for the first time in December just past. Brazil made a change from Last Sunday of October to First Sunday of November just a few months ago, late in 2006. Brazil is nearly as populous as the United States, but I did not hear even a single news story of planes falling from the sky there as a result of changing the date of DST.

Answer 2

When the US Government decided to change when Daylight Savings Time starts and stops so it APPEARS that they are actually doing something besides taxing us all to death, it problems when calculating times that span across the new starting or stoping dates. For the average user, who cares, you set the time manually on your own PC, but Micro$oft, Apple and others have released patches for their OSes to fix this.

Where the big problem occurs is in medical applications that are time dependent or travel flight times, etc.

Answer 3

they changed the date it takes effect....I'm using windows vista and the clock is actually synched with an online server so no problem there....not sure if XP just runs a simple script but I suspect there's an update available nonetheless

Answer 4

If the clock doesnt change automatically and you have automatic updates turned on and the patch doesnt work then right click on your clock and adjust the time manually

Answer 5

I just have simple Windows XP, I didn't have any problems with mine, but yeah.

Answer 6

I use windows vista..I don't have no problems.


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