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Monday, March 9, 2009

Daylight Savings Time Headache

A few people for some reason have been experiencing problems with their computers not updating to the new time after the DST transition on March 8th. The worst part however is the fact that Microsoft has not addressed this problem. But has left it to their users to surf the internet for solutions on message boards, forums, and elsewhere. At first I was not annoyed with the fact that my computer's time was an hour behind but when I realized that because my computer's time was incorrect it was affecting the appointment book on my phone which is synced with Outlook 2003's calender. The affect this had on my appointments was frustrating as it advanced their starting times by 1 hour into the future. I then went on a quest to solve the problem.

After searching for a short while I came upon a message board where a few users had been experiencing the same problem as myself. One user said that they had fix the problem by installing KB955839. I tried this but my computer said it was already installed. I figured that perhaps my version of KB955839 might be corrupted. So I decided to uninstall it and then reinstall. Upon reinstalling KB955839 my computer immediately jumped to the correct time. I then ran Time Zone Daylight Savings Update Mode for Outlook 2003 and synced my phone up. I found my appointments were restored to the correct time and everything was perfect. Below I have provided links which will help you to fix this problem on your own computer and Windows Mobile Device.

http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/t1236529726

-Message board where I found other users experiencing the same problem

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=57a0e0a2-8e27-4da1-b08d-dc008cc280ba&displaylang=en
-Microsoft KB955839 Update

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/en-us/downloads/microsoft/daylight-savings-update.mspx
-Windows Mobile DST Update

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e343a233-b9c8-4652-9dd8-ae0f1af62568&DisplayLang=en
-Microsoft Office Outlook Tool: Time Zone Data Update Tool for Microsoft Office Outlook