Daylight Saving Time (DST) Patch Released for WEPOS

The patch to handle the change to Daylight Saving Time that begins this March is now available for WEPOS. For OEMs, to incorporate the update into systems you are developing, you can get it as part of the January 2007 update on the Mobile & Embedded Communications Extranet (ECE):

https://ece.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/ece/ProductDownloads/TheDownloads/Embedded/WEPOS/OEMDownloads/UPD-011707-DistOEM-XPESupUpdatesJan2007.htm
[Product Downloads >> The Downloads >> General Embedded >> WEPOS >> January 17, 2007: Microsoft Windows XP Embedded Supplement Updates January 2007 (KB 920213, KB 923694, KB 923980, KB 924270, KB 925454, KB 926247, KB 926255, KB 928388, KB 929969, KB 925486)]

If you do not have access to the ECE website please email MS Mobile & Embedded Communications Feedback & Support.

For end users who already are running WEPOS and need to apply the update, you can download it directly from Microsoft Update: https://support.microsoft.com/kb/928388. End users of the WEPOS operating system can consume XP SP2 security fixes and updates from the download center.

More background on the Daylight Saving Time (DST) Change:
In August of 2005, President Bush signed into law The Energy Policy Act of 2005. This modifies the start and end dates of Daylight Saving Time (DST) beginning in March of 2007. Clocks will be set ahead one hour on the second Sunday of March instead of the current first Sunday of April. Clocks will be set back one hour on the first Sunday in November, rather than the last Sunday of October. This results in required updates to computer operating systems in order to adjust the local system time. More information about the impact of this change to other Windows operating systems can be found here: Preparing for daylight saving time changes in 2007. Please note that we are currently working on getting this page updated to reflect the fix for WEPOS in addition to the other operating systems listed.

- Shayna