Is your time correct?

Yesterday we changed our clocks back to normal time from daylight savings time. This is a change from the way it use to be because of the Energy Policy Act (EPAct) of 2005 a few weeks were added onto the length of how long most of the United States observes daylight savings time (aka DST). Because of this act being passed a lot of the existing equipment needed to be updated to coincide with the longer DST period.

Some of you may be thinking.....SO? What's that got to do with the price of eggs in China? (no offense to any Chinese reading this blog).

Well, the thing is, was your time on your computer, PDA, blackberry, iPhone, or any other electronic device correct this morning? I know mine wasn't. For some reason my computer didn't know about the changes to the rules about DST. So I had to update my computer. Even though according to Windows Update it was up-to-date on all of the security patches. So I had to do some research and find the patch and manually install it. I found the patch through Windows Knowledge Base (KB) article. The article (KB951072) is the August 2008 cumulative time zone update for Microsoft Windows operating systems.

So if your time wasn’t right today (November 3, 2008) maybe you also need to update your computer with this time zone update from Windows. The article should give you quality instructions on how to install the patch onto your computer.