John, et all, Just a friendly reminder - anytime you do online updates, you are opening your whole desktop/laptop so Microsoft can spy on you - meaning what you have installed, legally or illegally, all your data files, public and/or private. Make a full backup or order the update via CD. MS worry-wort John Dutton wrote: > > Anyone that is utilizing automatic updates on their desktop/laptop > should have the fix automatically installed. This is Microsoft hotfix > KB931836. If in doubt one can click on: > > Start >Control Panel >Add/Remove Programs > > Make sure the box is checked for “Show Updates” > > Scroll towards the bottom of the list and check for “Windows Software > updates—Update for Windows XP (KB931836)”. > > If it is not there, then one should run Windows Update (or Microsoft > Update) and download the fix. Alternately, the link is here > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931836. > > After running this update the computer’s Daylight Savings Time will be > fixed. If not, then no amount of monkeying with times will rectify the > problem in the given calendar program (this is not just a M$ Office > issue) until last year’s DST dates occur. Just for the record the > dates have been moved from previous years by Congress. Of course if > you live outside the US or in Arizona or about three counties in > Indiana you are unaffected as they don’t observe DST anyway. > > Quote: Starting in the spring of 2007, daylight saving time (DST) > start and end dates for the United States will transition to comply > with the Energy Policy Act of 2005. DST dates in the United States > will start three weeks earlier, at 2:00 A.M. on the second Sunday in > March. DST will end one week later, at 2:00 A.M. on the first Sunday > in November. 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 Windows operating system and your calendar > programs are updated. > > 95% of you will already have KB931836 installed on your laptop/desktop > from the Automatic Update and will only need to manually update a PDA. > The PDA link is > http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/daylightsaving/daylightdownload.mspx > . If anyone has any questions about how to go about this feel free to > email me. I can walk you through it. > > John Dutton > > Billings, MT > > duttonjw at gmail.com <mailto:duttonjw at gmail.com> >
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