Using Inventory Solution to Prepare for the US Daylight Savings Change

Daylight Savings Time (DST) start and end dates are changing in the US. The start date is three weeks earlier (March 11 this year). The end date is one week later (the first Sunday in November). We found this article (and a few custom tools) in the knowledgebase that'll help you understand what to expect and how to prepare.

Heads Up

You IT pros working in the US are probably painfully aware of the change in the law that specifies Daylight Savings Time start and end dates. You may not know, however, that Altiris Inventory Solution can help get your systems ready for the change.

This knowledgebase article that gives the full details (and includes a custom inventory and a set of custom reports to boot!). Here's an excerpt:

Five reports will be imported. All five reports can be confured to report on a selected collection, domain and computer name. All five reports perform a Left Outer Join with the time zone/Daylight savings data. If a matching row is not found, the report will display "Data Unavailable". In this way the total count will match the count of the computers in the selected collection, domain and computer name.

Read the entire article (and get the custom tools) here: kb.altiris.com/article.asp?article=32707&p=3