Thanks to a new law, daylight saving time will start three weeks earlier and end one week later this year.
- the additional time period includes March 11, 2007, to April 1, 2007, and
- October 28, 2007, to November 4, 2007.
- These dates are referred to as the extended DST period.
It will begin at 2 a.m. on the Second Sunday in March and last until the first Sunday of November. And while the change is supposed to help save energy, it could wreak havoc on your computer.
Experts say computers purchased before 2005 will most likely have to be manually adjusted.
A common fix is called a patch, which will reprogram systems with the updated start and end dates for daylight savings time. Users of the new Windows Vista are immune, since