Ah yes...another fine day here at FastServers. Yes the Midwest Operations Center is continually being hit with snow, ice, and wind gusts over 30MPH, however it's business as usual!
As you may have already heard, the U.S. Energy Policy Act of 2005 passed by Congress in July, 2005, extended Daylight Saving Time (DST) by approximately four weeks. As a result, beginning in 2007, DST will start three weeks earlier on March 11, 2007, and end one week later on November 4, 2007, resulting in a new DST period that is four weeks longer than previously observed. This change impacts both the U.S. and Canada. For those of you running Microsoft Windows servers, it is imperative that you apply the latest update from Microsoft to correct DST so that your server will stay up to date. This link (Microsoft - http://support.microsoft.com/gp/cp_dst ) provided by Microsoft will allow you to determine which updates need to be applied to your servers/workstations/Windows Mobile Devices. For our Red Hat Enterprise and CentOS customers, here is a valuable link from Red Hat on the packages that need to be updated to deal with DST: (Linux - http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_79_9950.shtm)
Yes Daylight Saving Time will save us energy on a larger scale, but we continue to lose power here in the Midwest with the ice/snow. Personally...someone should put a hit out on that Groundhog and his predictions. If he was so great at what he did, he would use his "knowledge" match all the numbers for PowerBall. Down with the Groundhog! So don't get too upset about losing the "hour of sleep". Spring is right around the corner and the weather will start to be glorious again.
FastServers will have a full maintenance round in the next upcoming days to address these the DST updates for our managed customers; updating this and other critical updates that need to be applied within our environments. For those of you who are savvy enough to handle the task of processing these updates, please do so within the next week; the 11th is fast approaching. Need further assistance with getting your server updated? Get in contact with a FastServers engineer for further assistance. Open a support request within your Pentagon account and we will be more than happy to lend support on this issue.
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