by Mary Wielski, Consultant
February 15, 2007 —Beginning in 2007, Daylight Saving Time (DST) starts earlier and ends later than in previous years, due to a change in US Federal law. On Friday, December 29, 2006, the CalAgenda (Oracle Calendar) server was upgraded to include the new rules. However, as an unwanted side effect, some events which were previously scheduled to take place between the new and old DST start dates (March 11 and April 1, 2007), or between the old and new end dates (October 28 and November 4, 2007) may now be an hour off.
Only events that were created prior to December 29, 2006 are affected by this issue.
CalAgenda users should review and manually adjust any affected events during these periods to their correct times, both on individual calendars and on other CalAgenda calendars for which they might be responsible, such as resource calendars used for scheduling classrooms and the like. The CalAgenda Service Team asked the vendor, Oracle Corporation, to determine whether any automated solution might be available, but the vendor identified several reasons, some relatively subtle, that moving event times en masse would incorrectly alter the times of other events. Thus, Oracle is actively discouraging customers from attempting to adjust times automatically.
To assist CalAgenda users in manually correcting meeting times affected by the change in Daylight Saving Time, the CalAgenda team has made available a copy of the CalAgenda calendar data from December 28 which predates the Daylight Saving Time shift in our vendor's software. By making a paper printout of this previous version, you will be able to compare your current calendar to the correct meeting times.
Check the CalAgenda Knowledge Base for further details.
