3/01/2007: Daylight Savings Time (DST) 2007 Patching Information
Daylight Saving Time (DST) will begin three weeks earlier this year (March 11, 2007) and end one week later (November 4, 2007) as a result of the U.S. Energy Policy Act of 2005.
Bruin OnLine strongly suggests contacting your software vendors to determine what you need to do to make your system DST 2007 compliant.
Apple:Other UCLA Departments also provide information on the potential impact of the DST 2007 changes:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305056 BlackBerry:
http://www.blackberry.com/select/dst2007/ Microsoft:
http://support.microsoft.com/gp/dst_topissues - Overview of the DST changes.
http://support.microsoft.com/gp/cp_dst - Microsoft DST Help and Support Center. Palm:
http://www.palm.com/us/support/downloads/dst.html Windows Mobile:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/daylightsaving/default.mspx
Academic Technology Services (ATS) Software Central:
http://www.ats.ucla.edu/software/default.htm BruinTech
http://www.bruintech.ucla.edu/news/DST.htm CTS Enterprise Messaging (EM):
http://www.cts.ucla.edu/em_site/EM-dashboard.aspx
Am I Patched?
The University of British Columbia has created a DST Diagnostic tool using JavaScript to verify that your system clock will make the proper transition on March 11, 2007:
http://www.it.ubc.ca/news/dstchanges2007/sysadmininfo/testdst.html
NOTE: This diagnostic tool has been verified to work on Windows 2000, Windows XP Professional, and Apple OS X 10.4. Bruin OnLine does not guarantee the accuracy of this tool and is providing it for reference and verification only.
If you have any questions, please contact the BOL Help Desk at (310)267-4357, option 1, or at consult@ucla.edu.