High Tech Household

I woke up Sunday morning and noticed that my PC’s clock was an hour behind.  This is due to the law that passed a couple of years ago which extended daylight savings time by several weeks.  Prior to 2007, this past weekend would have been the week that clocks were changed back by one hour.  With the law change, they moved Daylight Savings from the last Sunday in October to the first Sunday in November (I really don’t see what difference one week makes, but that’s another story…).  I had installed a patch a couple of years ago on my PC to handle this event, but it didn’t seem to take effect this year.

Turns out this issue affects some, but not all, PCs (go figure).  Even if you use Windows Update regularly to install patches, you may experience this problem.  If you do, you need to install a patch to “fix” daylight savings time on your PC.  The patch can be downloaded for XP, Vista, and Windows Server 2003 and 2008 here (Windows 7 has the fix pre-installed).  Be sure you select your correct version of windows to download, and simply run the executable to update your PC.  If you are using Microsoft Outlook to manage your calendar, you should also install the Outlook patch if you have not already.