UPDATE MICROSOFT PROGRAMS DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME

The U.S. Energy Policy Act of 2005, passed by the United States (U.S.) Congress in July 2005, extended daylight saving time (DST) in the U.S. by approximately four weeks. Therefore, beginning in 2007, DST dates in the United States will start three weeks earlier (2:00 A.M. on the second Sunday in March) and will end one week later (2:00 A.M. on the first Sunday in November).

The change in DST will affect many technology products that small to midsize businesses are currently using for scheduling, time calculating, transaction logging, and billing such as:

• Calendar and scheduling applications
• Date and time calculations (current and historical)
• Transaction logging (UTC versus local time)
• Tariff billing applications

Several Microsoft products are affected by the 2007 daylight saving time change:

• Microsoft Windows
• Microsoft Windows Server
• Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services
• Microsoft Exchange Server
• Microsoft Office Outlook
• Microsoft Office Live Meeting
• Microsoft Dynamics CRM
• Microsoft SQL Server Notification Services
• Microsoft Entourage
• Microsoft Visual Studio

If you are running any of the products in the following list, you should review the guidance published on the Microsoft DST site to determine what steps you must take.