Outlook causes mini Y2k
For three weeks this March and April, Microsoft warns that users of its calendar programs “should view any appointments … as suspect until they communicate with all meeting invitees.”Wow, that’s sort of jarring – is something treacherous afoot?
Actually, it’s a potential problem in any software that was programmed before a 2005 law decreed that daylight-saving time would start three weeks earlier and end one week later, beginning this year.
The US congress decided that more early evening daylight would translate into energy savings.
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Go here (MS website) to solve this problem.
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on March 18th, 2007 at 6:29 am
[...] http://www.calendarreview.com/2007/02/15/outlook-causes-mini-y2k/ (In the summer of 2005, I was quite grave about the Daylight Saving Time change. I identified that the largest pain point would be that meetings scheduled during the overlap between new DST start [early March] and old [early April] on a system prior to having the operating system patched with new DST information. My claim was that users would see this as Outlook being fragile and that we should prepare. See next link…) [...]