The government of Brazil announced a change in the observance of daylight saving time in the country. According to the details in the Ministry's Decree number 6558 of September 8, 2008, DST will start the third Sunday of October and then end generally...

(cross posted from Announcement- Changes to daylight saving time in Morocco, earlier than later on September 1, 2008 ) We recently received news reports (via this link , in French) that the ministry for the Modernization of the public sector in Morocco...

The 'Hot Topics for Daylight Saving Time changes' page at http://support.microsoft.com/gp/dst_hottopics has been updated: Daylight Saving Time and Time Zone update for Windows now available (revised August 12, 2008) The most recent cumulative updates...

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...

As noted at http://www.afrol.com/articles/29955 late last month (July 23, 2008) and in L'Express newspaper , the government of Mauritius has decided to adopt Summer Time (as it's known in Europe, aka daylight saving time) in the island nation of over...

Daylight Saving Time changes in Morocco and Pakistan (revised May 23, 2008) Microsoft has learned of a change to the observance of Daylight Saving Time (DST, aka regionally as Summer Time) in Morocco and Pakistan that could impact customers using local...

Background – Iraq Daylight Saving Time changes for 2008 Microsoft has learned of a change to the observance of Daylight Saving Time (DST) in Iraq that could impact customers using the Baghdad time zone which is also called the Arabic time zone (GMT +03...

Microsoft has learned of a potential change to the observance of Daylight Saving Time (DST) in Iraq that may impact customers using the Baghdad time zone. An early, unsubstantiated report is that the Ministry of Iraq has decided that the country will...

The government of Chile announced on February 7, 2008, that their current daylight saving time will be extended in order to save energy. The new fall back date for the daylight saving period of 2007-2008 is: Daylight saving time ends: Last Saturday...

[cross posted to http://blogs.msdn.com/mthree/archive/2008/03/07/dst-arrives-030708.aspx ] Daylight Saving Time begins in much of the US and Canada this weekend, as noted in more than 2,200 news articles today on March 9 , several weeks earlier than...

(cross posted from this blog entry ) This past week, the government of Argentina approved a new change to their observance of daylight saving time in the country effective this Sunday, December 30, 2007 at 12:00am to March 16th, 12:00 for Argentina...

A recent update was posted to the Microsoft Daylight Saving Time & Time Zone hot topics page which details impacts to some users of certain Windows Mobile devices, who may have experienced an early changeover. A copy of that posting is found below...

Microsoft Windows operating systems KB933360 is the latest Windows Cumulative Time Zone Update available. KB933360 will be issued as an "Update Rollup" and available via WSUS. To note, this Knowledge Base article replaces KB931836. Customers...

To be posted to the Microsoft Daylight Saving Time & Time Zone Hot Topics page at http://support.microsoft.com/gp/dst_hottopics ... Brazil 2007-2008 Daylight Saving changes: The government of Brazil announced a change on September 20, 2007, in the...

In the United States, 5 counties in Indiana will be moving from Central Standard Time to Eastern Standard Time on November 4, 2007.  The counties are Daviess, Dubois, Knox, Martin and Pike.  See the following links for more information: http...

Today we will host a Technical "Deep-Dive" Webcast... Monday, September 24, 2007 at 2:00pm Pacific This LiveMeeting Webcast will be hosted by members of our Microsoft DST Team to provide a technical overview of resources available to help prepare Microsoft...

The government of Venezuela has announced a change to the time zone for the country. To date, Venezuela observed AST. The new time zone change will begin September 24, 2007, when clocks will move backwards 30 minutes, from UTC-4:00 GMT to UTC-4:30. This...

New info is now available on Egyptian and Venezuela for the 2007 Time Zone changes in those countries, on the DST Hot Topics and Latest News page... Egyptian government announces 2007 Daylight Saving changes Egypt 2007 Daylight Saving changes: The government...

In preparation for a potential time zone move, customers may use the Outlook Time Zone Data Update Tool with the /PHYSICALMOVE switch, which has promoted some questions as noted here: Q: Are there negative effects from running the tool multiple times...

Steve Justice (Senior Escalation Engineer) and Joel Schaeffer (Escalation Engineer) from Microsoft Product Support have put together some instructional videos to assist your DST planning efforts. On-Demand (hosted by Channel9.MSDN.com) These videos can...

Q: I checked http://support.microsoft.com/gp/dst_prodlist#Ent and under Entourage it states to download Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.3.7 update. I checked the KB for the update and it mentioned nothing about DST. I checked the readme for the download...

Q: We currently run Exchange 2003 SP1, and also have Blackberry server. Up to now our understanding was that we need to apply the standard DST O/S fix to the Exchange server, but would only need to install the CDO patch if we had applications that use...

Q: Is there any reason not to recommend the use of the /forcerebasesuppressallupdates switch with tzmove? And what is the likely scenario why someone would get the error below? Get the following error with the /FORCEREBASESUPPRESSALLUPDATES switch. A...

Q: I have had this question come in from a customer around rebasing of calendars: In the Knowledgebase article KB931667 : DST using Outlook TZmove, the following is stated: You can also rebase calendar items that are stored in additional calendars...

Q: I’m attempting to install the new Exchange Calendar Update tool on a system that had the previous version installed – I removed the previous version via Add/Remove Programs, but when I execute the installation for the new version, I get an option to...