The United States as well as the computer community will endure a new and different time change bug this year. Computers will have to be adjusted according to the software they are set up with. You are probably wondering why your PC will not automatically make the change as in recent times? Thanks to our elected representatives in Washington, the US will be making the change three weeks earlier than recent times in order to save energy. Your computer will have to be updated in order to get with the new program. Microsoft’s new Windows Vista will handle the problem without any other necessary steps; but, XP will require the Feb 2007 time zone update support.microsoft.com/kb/931836/en-us .
Microsoft Windows has a smaller program to take care of Windows 2000. A trip to the Microsoft update website will have a program for updating Outlook.
If you own a Blackberry, it will require an update, also. www.blackberry.com/DST2007/patch/index2.shtml, as well as the Palm OS Treo. Palm is behind, and hasn’t offered a patch as yet. Devices with embedded clocks will require an update because of this bug. TiVo has already sent the update to all of its boxes.
