Friday, September 14, 2007

Microsoft preps for DST headaches

Microsoft is trying to ensure that when daylight-saving time ends and Americans turn the clock back in the first week of November, <A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2182767,00.asp?kc=EWKNLENT091407STR1">the experience is seamless.</A>

That was not the case on March 11, when daylight-saving time started three weeks earlier than usual. It will also end a week later than usual, on Nov. 4, as a result of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which extended daylight-saving time by a month in the United States, and came into effect in 2007.

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