Is Your Computer Ready for Daylight Savings Time?

Is your computer ready for daylight-savings time? For information on making sure your Windows computer is ready for daylight-savings time (which starts on Sunday, March 11, 2007) read this article from the Microsoft Knowledge base here. For more information on updating your computer, including Macs read this article from Scot's Newsletter. If you use the automatic update on your Windows XP machine you computer should already have the appropriate update installed.

As Scot said, "The bad news is that Microsoft is not offering help for users of Windows 98, Windows ME, and all Microsoft operating systems prior to Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4." If you are using one of those operating systems you can manually change the time for daylight-savings time. Check with the creator of any application you may be using that depend on the correct time and date.

If your computer is part of a network, please consult your system's administrator before making any changes.
--Update 3/9/07-- Office Watch has some good information on managing the time change with your computers. A word of caution, between March 11, 2007 and early April double check the time of any appointments you recorded in your computer. I liked the advice given by Office Watch, put the date of appointments into the text of an appointment. For example a phone conference can have in the location field '3:15pm US West Coast time.' The next few weeks will be a time to pay close attention to your appointments especially if you track them on your computer or PDA.