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Australian Daylight Savings Changes for Microsoft Products for the Year 2006

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The Commonwealth Games are scheduled to be held during March 2006 in Melbourne Australia. Several Australian states including New South Wales, Victoria, Australian Capital Territory, South Australia and Tasmania, have changed the Daylight Savings transition end dates to the first Sunday of Apr 2006.
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    Note: There are multiple files available for this download. Once you click on the “Download” button, you will be prompted to select the files you need.
    Version:
    Date Published:

    2.2

    3/8/2006

    File name:
    File size:

    mel-2006-dst-all.exe

    282 KB

    mel-2006-dst-me.exe

    129 KB

    Mel-2006-dst-ntx86.exe

    146 KB

    Mel-2006-dst-ntx86OL2000.exe

    146 KB

      For more information on this update package, please see: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/909915.

      The Commonwealth Games are scheduled to be held during March 2006 in Melbourne Australia. Several Australian states including New South Wales, Victoria, Australian Capital Territory, South Australia and Tasmania, have changed the Daylight Savings transition end dates to the first Sunday of April 2006.

      Daylight savings end for 2005/2006
      For the Year 2006 only, the published Daylight Savings end transition dates (as at 14th September, 2005) for each of the states of Australia are:
      Victoria 27/03/2006 To 2/4/2006
      ACT 27/03/2006 To 2/4/2006
      NSW 27/03/2006 To 2/4/2006
      Tasmania 27/03/2006 To 2/4/2006
      South Australia 27/03/2006 To 2/4/2006


      Note: Clocks are advanced at 2am by 1 hour on start day to become Summer Time.
      Clocks are wound back at 3am by 1 hour at end day to become Standard Time.

      The change to Daylight Savings will affect the transition settings for the following time zone rules:

      (GMT + 10:00) Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney
      (GMT + 10:00) Hobart
      (GMT+09:30) Adelaide


      Currently supported versions of products shipped by Microsoft have Daylight Savings transition dates that do not cater for the abovementioned change. These products include:
      Microsoft Windows ME
      Microsoft Windows 2000
      Microsoft Windows Server 2003
      Microsoft Windows XP
      Microsoft Windows CE / Mobile
      Microsoft Exchange server 2000
      Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
  • System Requirements

    Supported Operating System

    Windows 2000, Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Windows 2000 Professional Edition , Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, Windows ME, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1, Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 for Itanium-based Systems, Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition for 64-Bit Itanium-Based Systems, Windows Server 2003, Datacenter x64 Edition, Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition for Itanium-based Systems, Windows Server 2003, Enterprise x64 Edition, Windows Server 2003, Standard x64 Edition, Windows XP, Windows XP 64-bit, Windows XP for Itanium-based Systems Version 2003, Windows XP Home Edition , Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional 64-Bit Edition (Itanium) , Windows XP Professional 64-Bit Edition (Itanium) 2003, Windows XP Professional Edition, Windows XP Service Pack 1, Windows XP Service Pack 2, Windows XP Tablet PC Edition

      Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, Windows ME
      An update has been created for the following products:
      Windows 2000
      Windows Server 2003
      Windows XP
      Windows ME
  • Install Instructions

      Run the self extracting executable file and read the ReadMe file for instructions.

      Update Flash:
      For customers that have Outlook 2000 client software there is an updated package available for Windows NT in the download section.

      If you do NOT have Outlook 2000 clients then NO additional action is required.

      If you have Outlook 2000 clients and have not already deployed the timezone registry update from KB 909915, apply the new Outlook 2000 specific version in its place.

      If you have Outlook 2000 clients and have already deployed this timezone registry update from KB 909915, you will need to uninstall it and install the Outlook 2000 specific version below.

      NOTE: Second release to include reg.exe for Windows 2000 machines without the support tools installed.

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