I noticed something a bit funky in my Outlook calendar this week, and I can only assume it’s related to the new & improved daylight saving time coming our way this weekend. After this weekend, all my recurring appointments are showing a start time 1 hour later. As if I’m not confused enough, my calendar has to try, right?

Like Y2K, the newly legislated DST is causing computer and software issues. Many manufactuers have created patches to ensure that your operating system, email, calendars, and phone systems can handle the big switch this weekend. Microsoft has released Patches that may not switch 100% of the calendar entries to the correct DST time during extended DST period (from March 11 to April 1). What’s that mean to you? Your calendar entries, like mine, may be 1 hour off.

These problems could occur again during the 2nd extended DST period later this year, from October 28th through November 4th.