Are You Ready for March 11?

As you know, Daylight Saving Time usually starts on the first Sunday in April. However, this year Daylight Saving Time begins on the second Sunday in March. In which, we are turning our clocks an hour ahead three weeks early and turning our clocks back an hour one week later on the first Sunday in November. The government has enforced this to try to save money on electricity. Benjamin Franklin proposed this idea in 1784 to save daylight and hoped to give workers more hours by increasing the amount of daylight during the summer and decreasing it during the winter.
All computers and software applications with a programmed calendar date and time will be affected unless you have updated your computer and applications with the latest patches. Vendors have patches available for most applications and operating systems. However, if your application or operating system is no longer supported by the vendor, they may not provide a patch.
If you do not have patches applied to your applications and operating system, you may notice erroneous time recorded information; i.e., time stamps, calendar times, time tracking, etc. may be off by one hour. In some instances, you may manually update your time within the application and operating system. However, be aware on April 1, the time may be modified based on the old Daylight Saving Time schedule. Newer operating systems and applications; such as, Microsoft Vista, will be immune to the Daylight Saving Time change
since the law was passed prior to the release of the tool. Most vendors post their patch information on their websites – we highly recommend you perform research to ensure your business operations will not affected.