As you hopefully have heard, Congress has gone and created another Y2K-ish problem for all of us. I had heard about this a few weeks back when it came to my attention that daylight savings time will start on the 2nd Sunday of March in 2007, rather than the 1st Sunday of April. It magnified itself when I was inputing some Outlook calendar items for next week and I noticed a standing, recurring meeting on Wednesday was showing up an hour earlier than normal – but only on my Motorola Q and not my PC. All dates between this coming Sunday and the first Sunday in April exhibited the problem.

A quick search of Microsoft Mobile’s site led me to a couple of options. Most of them were for the PocketPC, which is not compatible with a Mobile Smartphone. Instead, use the Windows Mobile Updates for Daylight Saving Time (Desktop Tool).

Downloading the Windows Mobile Daylight Saving Time 2007 Updates Setup took less than a minute. Not nearly as complicated as fixing the 85010014 problem since you don’t even need to use the ActiveSync window at all. Be sure to attach your Motorola Q via the USB cord before proceeding. Installing it took only a few minutes. The phone will shutdown after allowing it to complete the installation. You’ll need to disconnect the USB cord first and start up the phone again.

Lo and behold, my calendar entries are correct now. Only problem I have is to double-check that anything I entered during that 4 week period is correct and matching up with others with whom I’m meeting. Hope you have as easy of a time as I did with this update! Don’t delay, or you may be the one who shows up an hour early to a meeting next week…