Steve CDN
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You may have seen some headlines on the Internet or TV or heard friends talking about a Time Zone problem with Outlook due to Daylight Saving Time which starts three weeks early this year in the United States and Canada. (See MSNBC report below).
According to Microsoft, Outlook creates appointments and meetings using UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) NOT your local time. When you add a new event and give it a specific time, Outlook converts the time to UTC and stores that instead, then converts it back to your time when you need to see it. The daylight savings change in March makes this a big problem, which is the reason for Microsoft's warnings on their Outlook web site
MSNBC Report Below
Daylight saving time arrives a little earlier ? March 11 ? and stays a little later ? Nov. 4 ? this year. And it?s bringing a problem along with it that could affect everything from stock trades to airline schedules to your BlackBerry.
Software created before the law mandating the change passed in 2005 is set to automatically advance its timekeeping by one hour on the first Sunday in April, not the second Sunday in March. Congress decided that more early evening daylight would translate into energy savings.
The result is a glitch reminiscent of the Y2K bug, when cataclysmic crashes were feared if computers interpreted the year 2000 as 1900 and couldn?t reconcile time appearing to move backward. If banks and other institutions aren't properly prepared, automatic stock trades reportedly might happen at the wrong hour, buildings that unlock at a certain time could stay shut, and airline flight schedules could be scrambled.
According to Microsoft, Outlook creates appointments and meetings using UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) NOT your local time. When you add a new event and give it a specific time, Outlook converts the time to UTC and stores that instead, then converts it back to your time when you need to see it. The daylight savings change in March makes this a big problem, which is the reason for Microsoft's warnings on their Outlook web site
MSNBC Report Below
Daylight saving time arrives a little earlier ? March 11 ? and stays a little later ? Nov. 4 ? this year. And it?s bringing a problem along with it that could affect everything from stock trades to airline schedules to your BlackBerry.
Software created before the law mandating the change passed in 2005 is set to automatically advance its timekeeping by one hour on the first Sunday in April, not the second Sunday in March. Congress decided that more early evening daylight would translate into energy savings.
The result is a glitch reminiscent of the Y2K bug, when cataclysmic crashes were feared if computers interpreted the year 2000 as 1900 and couldn?t reconcile time appearing to move backward. If banks and other institutions aren't properly prepared, automatic stock trades reportedly might happen at the wrong hour, buildings that unlock at a certain time could stay shut, and airline flight schedules could be scrambled.
