Chile announces an extension on their Daylight Saving Time for 2008

The government of Chile announced on February 7, 2008, that their current daylight saving time will be extended in order to save energy. The new fall back date for the daylight saving period of 2007-2008 is:

     Daylight saving time ends:  Last Saturday of March at 11:59:59PM

Information is available via our Chilean web site at www.microsoft.com/chile/cambiodehora, "Extension del horario de Verano en Chile".  Customers and partners will find additional information on this change and manual remediation at <blogs.technet.com/latam/archive/tags/DST/default.aspx>: 

• Cambio de horario de verano en Chile – Cómo actualizar Windows en servidores y estaciones de trabajo
• Daylight Saving Time change in Chile – How to update Windows Server and Desktop operating systems
• Cambio de horario de verano en Chile - Efecto en clientes Outlook y servidores Exchange
• Daylight Saving Time change in Chile – Effects on Outlook clients and Exchange Servers 

The default configuration for the time zone “(GMT-04:00) Santiago” in Windows Operating Systems does not reflect the new final date for the daylight saving time defined by the government.  This bulletin summarizes the actions recommended for customers in Chile to address the extension of daylight saving time and mitigate its impacts.

Tags: Microsoft, Daylight Saving Time, Daylight Savings Time, DST.