If you did not already know day light savings time has changed beginning this year (2007).

It will now run from the 2nd weekend in March to the 1st weekend in November. That means that this coming weekend you will need to “spring ahead” one hour on Saturday night.

Your computers clock will also need to be updated so that it will adjust to the new DST.

If you are running Windows you can find information about what you need to do here:

http://support.microsoft.com/gp/cp_dst and http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928388

If you are running Linux just do a search on google for your distro +DST and you will find what you need. I am running Fedora and I was able to update the tzdata using yum.

#yum install tzdata.noarch

Use zdump to check you system to make sure the DST changes have been applied.

My timezone is Eastern so just replace the EST5EDT with your timezone (man zdump for more info).

#zdump -v EST5EDT | grep 2007

It’s funny how the news media is reporting this as another possible y2k. Anyway get your systems patched up and you should be fine.