Palm Daylight Saving Time Updates – Better Late than Never

I received an email today, March 10th, from Palm because my Palm Tungsten|T3 is registered with them.

Daylight Saving Time (DST) begins March 11, 2007 — three weeks earlier than last year. DST will also last one week longer in the fall as well, changing back to standard time on November 11, 2007.

To help your calendar events and email reflect these new DST changes, please visit the link below to download the DST update for all Palm(R) devices. Remember, your device will NOT update automatically, so please download this update from Palm.com before March 11: http://News.palmnewsletters.com/cgi-bin13/DM/y/ekJl0WAcHK0HXH0Zlu0G6

So, nice of them to send me this. But why am I receiving it just one day before the time change? Seems that they could have had this update out weeks ago.

Why not just manually adjust the time on your palm like you do your VCR? Well, the Palm depends on the correct DST rule on the device to keep track of different time zone associated calendar events.

If I travel to Boise, or Phoenix, rather than changing the time on my palm, I am supposed to change the time zone. This keeps calendar items correct (I think).
But, other things depend on the correct time zone too. I use a planetarium program on my palm. Without the correct time zone settings, it will not be ‘synced’ with the night’s sky.

Another thing I noticed in the instructions:

All users: In the event of a hard reset, this update will need to be installed and run again on your device.

So this is not a bios update, just a temporary fix. Luckily the daily backup program I use, BackupMan, will restore this file if I have to do a restore.