New dates for daylight savings time

As you know, in 2007 the daylight time begins on March 11 rather than
April 2 and ends on November 4 rather than October 29. Just to keep
us confused, the new law says that in 2008, the dates will change
again. Go to http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/daylight_time.html to
see a statement about this from the folks at the US Naval
Observatory. My question is this; does anyone know how our GPSRs,
specifically Garmin, will will handle this change. Since most
recerivers have an Auto setting, won't this require a firmware update?

wayneskid@alaska.net wrote:

The dates shown in 2008 are not a result of a special change in the new
law just to confuse you. The Dates change every year as a result of
being defined to change on Sunday morning at 2:00 AM.

I do expect that firmware changes will be needed for GPS units that
switch automatically and changes for PDA's and changes for every
computer in the US and Canada. Note that Canada will follow the US new
rule but Mexico will not. Since the change takes place on March 11 there
is a lot to do before that date.

Dale



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On Sat, 03 Feb 2007 09:36:39 -0800, Dale DePriest



Microsoft has patches for the OS and for Outlook. The PDA patch is
supposed to be forthcoming, maybe from OEMs since they modify the OS.

The REAL headache here will be VCRs, Watches, Clocks,etc. that either cannot be=
updated or not easily. This will be a real PITA AND a great boon for retailers=

Gil Baron wrote:
be updated or not easily. This will be a real PITA AND a great boon for retailers


I can't see how it is any bigger a headache than any other year.

I never had any of these devices that adjusted for daylight savings
time. In fact I would be very surprised if any such device would adjust
for daylight savings. It would have to store the full date, a table of
dates for untold number of years and a setting to adjust for DST or not.



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