End of DST 2007

We’ve just finished our last Sunday shift during DST. November 3 is the first Sunday of November as well as the end of U.S. Daylight Saving Time. Today is quite unusual for us because we rendered an additional 30 minutes to our shift. This is in order for our organization to adjust with the end of the U.S. DST.

Last March, we had the same scenario. It was also very unique in a way since it was the initial implementation of the changes in the U.S. DST based on the Energy Policy Act. A lot of networking devices, which have DST feature in time keeping, were affected by this change, thus there’s a need to update them with a software patch or a manual workaround.

For a few days, we had a lot of customers who are asking assistance on how to apply the fix/workaround. Although this shouldn’t have a big impact on any network operation, a lot of network administrators were keen in time accuracy.

Now, we will be expecting a few customers still asking questions or assistance about this change. Fortunately for Cisco devices, we have a link to refer them. This document is actually a ‘catch-all’ as it informs of the different devices affected, and how to correct them.