Disclaimer : The information in this document is written in response to an announcement by the government of Armenia about changes in the daylight saving time in Armenia for the year of 2012. The steps provided in this bulletin were created to mitigate the impacts that the daylight saving time...

As part of Microsoft’s continued focus on customer satisfaction, we are announcing a revision to the Microsoft Support Lifecycle policy regarding the availability of Daylight Saving Time (DST) or Time Zone (TZ) updates during the Extended Support phase. DST or TZ updates are important because unless...

Once again, as has happened in the past, a couple of countries will see new changes to their observation of Daylight Saving Time (DST) , this time in Egypt and Western Australia. A new Microsoft Knowledge Base article is up – KB 974176 – noting the hotfix now available to update the Daylight Saving...

As reported in various publications, including Daily Times , Pakistan has announced the start of DST for 2009 on April 15 th at midnight. This information is subject to change as it has not been officially confirmed by a Pakistani government source. Last Monday a hotfix was released to implement...

Advisory: Syria to Observe Daylight Saving Time starting March 26 The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported that daylight saving time in Syria will begin on March 26, 2009. NO reports yet as to when DST will end in Syria this year. The report states that The Syrian Ministers approved the suggestion...

The most recent cumulative updates to daylight saving time (DST) and world time zones (TZ) for Windows are now available for supported versions of the Windows operating system. The cumulative updates have been released to the Microsoft Download Center and Windows Update.. These updates support versions...