Daylight Savings Time and Your Computers

Submitted by palniadmin on Tue, 03/21/2006 - 4:42pm.

As we all know, all of Indiana is set to begin honoring Daylight Savings Time this year, on April 2. This may affect your PCs and computers. In most cases, your computer centers have probably already addressed the issue on your campuses.

However, just in case, here are some helpful tips from Butler University, courtesy of Lewis Miller, on how to be ready for the daylight savings time changeover. It includes a links to some web pages at Butler that describe in detail what both Windows and Mac users may need to do to get ready.

Daylight Saving Time and Your Computer

Background

Passed by the Indiana State Legislature last April, the State of Indiana has decided to start observing Daylight Saving Time along with 47 other states in the US starting this spring. Indianapolis and Marion County [and most of Indiana] will stay in the Eastern Standard Time Zone and will change to Daylight Saving Time in the Spring.

Daylight Saving Time begins at 2 a.m. the first Sunday in April, when clocks are advanced one hour, and ends at 2 a.m. the last Sunday in October, when clocks are turned back one hour.

PDAs

If you have a personal PDA (Treo, Palm, Blackberry, etc) that you sync with your calendar, special steps will be needed on March 22 BEFORE you sync the PDA with your Butler calendar. Please watch for further instructions.

Home Computers - FYI

Instructions on how to change your time zone for your home computer:

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