For those who are asking how the DST change affects computer users the answer is pretty straightforward.

For a stand-alone computer, such as my home desktop everyone is correct. If you wake up in the morning and the time is off, no big deal. As others have said, simply click on the clock and change the time by 1hr.

As I mentioned above, this issue really only affects those that use corporate calendars for meeting or appointment scheduling. With international business as common as it is today there is a lot of interaction across many time zones that needs to factor in the change, and since Windows computers may not know about the change, then this often needs to be done manually, on each and every computer.

When the US changes to DST and Europe or Asia do not, then the difference between time zones shifts by an hour. Linked corporate calendars then get out of synch. Normally, corporate calendars adjust for DST, so you don't have to do anything to compensate. In this case it's not really a big deal, and nothing a simple email can't fix "Hey Hans, are we meeting at 3pm today or 2pm?"

QED.

Neo, Don't we turn into pumpkins?

BayouGal, LOL! Me too!

Per this USA Today report International fliers could have potential problems..http://blogs.usatoday.com/sky/2007/03/time.html

Sure enough. All was well this morning. Is everyone still alive and well?

Yes, mine worked too. Thanks for the link. I went in to my computer yesterday to get Microsoft updates thinking it would just give me this daylight savings time patch, but it tried to download IE version 7. I quickly hit the cancel button.

I downloaded it once before and had a hard time getting used to it, but uninstalled it after hearing about all the kinks in the system.

The easiest way to change the time is to double click on the time on your desktop.

Budman - I love IE 7 - it did take a little getting use to, but it's soooooooo much nicer.

To answer Neo's question...

NO!

I'm an hour behind.

Thanks, Barbara!! All's well now.

Now if only I didn't feel like I "lost" an hours sleep, lol.

This laptop and my cable box are 2 minutes off - I can live with that.

I don't know about the rest of you guys, but my computer automatically advanced the hour!

Howard, you may have already downloaded the patch with some of the Microsoft updates, a few months back, and may not have realized it. In fact, maybe I already had the patch and didn't realize it.

Budman, what some of us found out yesterday is that many computers get automatic updates from microsoft. When I went back and checked I could see that on Feb. 16, my computer did the automatic download. I didn't do anything to get the update.

Funny, I initiated my automatic updates, but the time did not automatically advance.

I guess I could try and figure out what went wrong, but I don't have the time -- hehehe..

I have the same issue as STW. I have the update but the hour did not advance automatically. Any ideas why it didn't work? I know how to manually change the time, but I'm curious why the update did not work.

I DO NOT get automatic updates(I was advised not too after my computer crashed). My computer changed the time itself. The computer is about a year and a half old. I think they had already come out with the dates for the time changes then. That's the only way I can figure it happened. I know the special download is not on my computer because I checked.

Budman, as long as I've had a computer, I've had automatic time updates.

I don't know if this site has been given or not, did not look thru all the posts. This is what I used to update the time for my time this morning for DST...

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u.../tips/dst.mspx

Thanks RedRock - once I checked the box for "automatically adjust clock for daylight savings time changes" my clock reset. It is good to know that the update worked. The time has always changed automatically in the past, so for some reason that box had unchecked itself.

My computer was updated to the DST change when I turned it on this morning so all is fine here. Now I just have to get all the clocks and watches changed.

Microsoft updates automatically, so my laptop is on CDT, but herein Mexico, we are still on CST.
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