More on New Zealand Daylight Saving Time changes
The Department of Internal Affairs has written to key IT providers reminding them about this year's change to daylight saving.
The Minister of Internal Affairs, Rick Barker, announced in April that the period of daylight saving was being extended to 27 weeks. From this year, daylight saving will start on the last Sunday in September and end on the first Sunday in April the following year. Accordingly, the next period of daylight saving will start on Sunday 30 September 2007 (when 2:00am becomes 3:00am) and end on Sunday 6 April 2008 (when 3:00am becomes 2:00am).
The only change is to the length of the period of daylight saving (daylight time). Daylight time is still one hour in advance of New Zealand standard time, and in the Chatham Islands, daylight time is still one hour and 45 minutes in advance of New Zealand standard time.
Deputy Secretary Keith Manch says IT providers will want to test their systems with the required changes before daylight saving commences on 30 September.
"We will follow up with a reminder to the regulators of the key sectors affected by the change to daylight saving, such as health and banking, recommending that they contact their IT providers about changes to programmes and any testing needs they have," Keith Manch said.
So go on, please read my previous post about this issue. If you work in New Zealand, or your IT organisation is based here, or you have some IT infrastructure in this country you should be aware of this.
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Comment by nathan, on 8-Jun-2007 11:45
Microsoft is fully aware of the changes to DST in New Zealand.
We are currently looking into what we will do and will let you know as soon as we have a definite plan.
Comment by alex, on 19-Jun-2007 18:39
Microsoft are talking about "Windows® Vista; XP; Windows Server 2003... updates will be distributed in late August via Microsoft Update..."
http://www.microsoft.com/australia/technet/timezone/nz.aspx
Windows 2000 users should check their support contract...
If you are running some sort of Open source O/S then you should be able to update the zones using 'zic' command and tzdata from here:
ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2007f.tar.gz
So my Linux pc at home already runs the new zones for New Zealand.
For the new rules for NZ, you need the 2007f version or later. The major Linux distributions will already have this version ready for download - in Debian GNU/Linux it's in the testing distribution, but not yet in 'Stable'.
http://packages.debian.org/testing/libs/tzdata
I believe the latest Sun Java updater supports the new zone data too...
http://java.sun.com/javase/tzupdater_README.html
So the sky isn't falling yet... unless maybe you are running Windows 2000 and don't have Extended Hotfix Support contact. :-)
Comment by nathan, on 21-Jun-2007 14:37
Comment by alex, on 6-Aug-2007 11:55
Update available on Technet page:
http://www.microsoft.com/australia/technet/timezone/nz.aspx
KB933360 - August 2007 cumulative time zone update for Microsoft Windows operating systems.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933360/en-us
"Updates from the previous cumulative Windows time zone update...
...New Zealand Standard Time
Adjusts DST start and end dates according to changes signed in to law after the prior cumulative time zone update was created (February 2007)."
This is for Vista, XP (SP2), Server 2003, Small Business Server 2003.
Comment by Rod, on 17-Sep-2007 11:57
I am gathering this update for the changes to the DST can be used on a SBS 2003 server?
For patch (KB933360)
It says:-
Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1; Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2
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Comment by sbiddle, on 7-Jun-2007 18:53
Anybody know when MS will have a Windows update available? Has anybody from NZ bothered to mention the changes to them yet?