Filed under: Windows, Windows Mobile, Microsoft
Updating your Windows Mobile daylight savings data
by Brad Linder Dec 21st 2006 at 4:30PM
In flagrant disregard for computer users, the U.S. government went and adopted an Energy Policy Act that extends daylight saving time by four weeks starting in 2007. Of course, this means that little clock in your computer that goes and changes the time for you while you completely forget to set your clock and wake up late/early for work is going to be off by a couple of weeks.Microsoft will be issuing updates for Windows XP, and Windows Vista will ship with the new data. But Windows Mobile users will have a harder time setting their clocks.
If you've got a relatively new PDA or smartphone, there's a decent chance your manufacturer will have an update available for download sometime before daylight saving time kicks in on March 11th. But there's no guarantee.
Microsoft's got a handy little web page up showing the registry settings that need to be changed if you have a Windows Mobile 2003 or later device. Sorry, 2002 users, Microsoft refuses to acknowledge that you still exist.
The instructions are really meant for PDA manufacturers to incorporate the registry changes into an installer file, so you might want to wait a few months to see if an update for your device comes out before futzing with your registry settings.
[Via Jason Langridge's Weblog]
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