Commonwealth Games Daylight Savings hotfix
Posted in Windows Desktop by Ben Christian on January 30th, 2006 This year daylight savings in NSW, Victoria, ACT, Tasmania and SA has been extended to allow for the Commonwealth Games that will be held in Melbourne. Gary forwarded a message to me that he received from Office Watch reporting that there is a hotfix available to prepare machines for the adjusted daylight savings period.
There’s information regarding the issue and the hotfix here:
http://www.microsoft.com/australia/timezone/2005.aspx
The idea is to get the patch applied as soon as possible as Outlook calendar appointments that are created before the patch is installed will be 1 hour out of wack during the extended period. Appointments that are created after the patch is installed will show the correct time. Apparently Outlook does the time zone calculation when the appointment is created which explains why this is the case.
During the Olympic Games in Sydney daylight savings actually started earlier, and I don’t recall having any issues with screwed up calendar appointments. In any case we’ll get this hotfix out to all of our machines in Australia.
