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IT Campus Update: 1 March 2007

Daylight Saving Time Changes may affect computers, software, PDAs, more

U.S. Daylight Saving Time (DST) begins March 11 this year, three weeks earlier than in previous years. Most computer and software time/date stamps are set to change on the first Sunday of April instead; the April date has been in use in the U.S. for the last 20 years.

What new DST dates mean for Rice

The Office of the Vice Provost for Information Technology (IT) is aware that campus computer systems and services may be affected if they are not upgraded. The greatest impact for customers will be in date-based services such as calendars and time-stamped events on systems that have not been patched. IT staff began making DST upgrades to systems before the Winter Break, and we will continue upgrading our systems as patches become available from each vendor.

Upgrades and patches will continue to take place 6:00 - 6:30 a.m. each morning through Spring Break to ensure all campus systems will be ready for the time change on March 11.

Related Spring Break Outages

OWL-Space will unavailable Thursday, March 8, from 9:00 p.m. until Friday morning at 7:00 a.m. while DST upgrades are implemented.

Email, storage, calendar and other network-related applications will be down intermittently from Thursday, March 8, from 10:00 p.m. until Friday morning at 2:00 a.m. during the campus network border upgrade.

What new DST dates mean for PDAs

IT recommends that Rice faculty, staff, and students check with the operating system vendors for their PDAs to learn how DST affects these tools. A list of the most popular PDA operating system vendors can be found in the IT web site at http://www.rice.edu/it/pda/.