FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE—January 10, 2007—Ypsilanti, MI—The U.S. Energy Policy Act of 2005 modified the schedule for Daylight Savings Time (DST). This schedule change will go into effect in March of 2007. Beginning in 2007,DST for the U.S., Canada and Bermuda will be extended by four weeks, starting three weeks earlier on the second Sunday in March (03/11/2007) and ending one week later on the first Sunday in November (11/04/2007).
This notice is to inform Quantum’s customers, resellers and prospective customers that the FacTS™ Windows interface product is not directly affected by this schedule change. FacTS™ pulls the date/time from the operating system of the server on which it isinstalled. Provided the server’s operating system supports the new DST schedule, FacTS™ will use the correct date/time stamps.
The FacTS™ web applications doesn’t have any hard coded dates but the Java JDK/JRE used includes a formula for calculating the day light savings date rather than pulling from the operating system. Our web customers need to confirm the JDK/JRE version on the server FacTS™ is installed are:
- 5.0_7, or later
- 1.4.2_11 or later
- 1.3.1_18 or later
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