Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Microsoft Bangladesh introduces DST

Microsoft Bangladesh announced a patch based fix to address the Day Light Saving Time (DST), which is supposed to be effective in Bangladesh from June 19th at 11PM on Monday. This fix can be downloaded from Microsoft's corporate website by going to here and will be applicable to Computers running on Microsoft operating systems like Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2003.

Users have to download the .msi file from the given website, run it and then choose "(GMT+06:00) DHAKA" option from the "Time Zone Settings" instead of "Astana, Dhaka" and check on the "AUTOMATICALLY ADJUST CLOCK FOR DAY LIGHT SAVING TIME" to enable DST. This would automatically adjust the clock on June 19th at 11PM from when the DST would be effective.

Source : IT Report [The New Nation]

An optional update is available to update the Daylight Saving Time for Bangladesh for the year 2009 for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 based computers

Problem description
According to an announcement from the Bangladesh government, the Bangladesh cabinet has decided to advance Bangladesh Standard Time by one hour from 23:00:00 June 19th to save electricity during evening peak hours. The clock will move one hour forward at 23:00:00 on June 19th. No DST end date has been announced yet. There was no DST for Bangladesh prior to this announcement.

Please be aware that if the government of Bangladesh determines an end date for DST after this KB has been published, that DST End date will not be reflected in this Microsoft Fix it solution.

More Information
This update creates a separate time zone for Bangladesh with the following DST setting:

* DST starts at 23:00:00 on June 19th, 2009
* DST ends at 23:00:00 on December 31st, 2009*

* Note The TZI value in the registry requires DST end date and time, thus Dec 31st, 2009 is set for now until future changes overwrite it.

This Fix it Solution adds the following to the Time zone: drop down in Date and Time settings: (GMT +06:00) Dhaka in addition to (GMT +06:00) Astana, Dhaka.

To have us update the DST for Bangladesh for you, go to the "Fix it for me" section. To update the DST for Bangladesh yourself, go to the "Let me fix it myself" section.

Fix it for me
To update the DST for Bangladesh automatically, do the following:

1. Click the Fix it button or link. Click Run in the File Download dialog box, and then follow the steps in the Fix it wizard.

Fix this problem [MicrosoftFixit50280.msi]


2. After the Fix it Solution is applied you must set your time zone to (GMT +06:00) Dhaka in the Date and Time settings in the Control Panel for your machine to use the new DST settings.

Note This Fix it solution works for all languages. However, for some languages, the wizard text may be in English.

Note If you are not on the computer that has the problem, save the Fix it solution to a flash drive or to a CD, and then run it on the computer that has the problem.

Next, go to the "Did this fix the problem?" section.

Let me fix it myself
To update the DST for Bangladesh yourself, follow the instructions described in KB914387. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
914387 How to configure daylight saving time for Microsoft Windows operating systems

Did this fix the problem?

APPLIES TO

* Windows Vista Business
* Windows Vista Enterprise
* Windows Vista Home Basic
* Windows Vista Home Premium
* Windows Vista Ultimate
* Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
* Microsoft Windows XP Professional
* Microsoft Windows XP Professional 64-Bit Edition (Itanium)
* Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter
* Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise
* Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard
* Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Datacenter Edition (32-Bit x86)
* Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Datacenter x64 Edition
* Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition (32-Bit x86)
* Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise x64 Edition
* Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition (32-bit x86)
* Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard x64 Edition
* Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Web Edition
* Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition (32-bit x86)
* Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition for Itanium-Based Systems
* Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Datacenter x64 Edition
* Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise x64 Edition
* Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition (32-bit x86)
* Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition for Itanium-based Systems
* Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Standard x64 Edition
* Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition (32-bit x86)
* Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 Premium Edition

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