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Daylight Saving Time Change in 2007

On August 8, 2005, President George W. Bush signed the Energy Policy Act of 2005. Beginning in 2007, daylight saving time (DST) will be extended in the United States. DST will start on March 11, 2007, which is three weeks earlier than usual, and it will end on November 4, 2007, which is one week later than usual. This results in a new DST period that is four weeks longer than in previous years. Unless certain updates are applied to your computer, the time zone settings for your computer's system clock may be incorrect during this four-week period. In particular, you must make sure that both your operating systems and your calendar programs are updated.

Here are some links to important information and patches relating to this change:

• Windows NT, XP, 2000, 2003 operating systems: http://www.intelliadmin.com/DaylightSavingFix.exe
  
  
• Windows 98 and Me:
  http://www.intelliadmin.com/DaylightSavingFix98.exe
  
  
• Macintosh:
  http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305056
  
  
• Microsoft Outlook:
  http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA102086071033.aspx
  
  
• Blackberry handhelds:
  http://www.blackberry.com/select/dst2007/
  
  
• Treo handhelds:
  http://www.palm.com/us/support/downloads/dst.html
  
  A Safety Reminder
  Many fire departments encourage people to change the batteries in their smoke detectors when they change their clocks because Daylight Saving Time provides a convenient reminder. "A working smoke detector more than doubles a person's chances of surviving a home fire," says William McNabb of the Troy Fire Department in Michigan. More than 90 percent of homes in the United States have smoke detectors, but one-third are estimated to have dead or missing batteries.

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