When the President signed the Energy Policy Act of 2005 on August 8, 2005, Congress increased DST by four weeks in the United States. This year, most clocks in this country will spring forward one hour this Sunday, March 11 – that’s three weeks sooner than any software released before 2005 is programmed to recognize – and fall back on November 4, one week later than usual.

Transactions everywhere have a date and time stamp on them and your wagers are no different.

Still, this is unlikely to affect your sportsbook, poker or casino software. DGS and ASI, two of the more popular sportbook/casino software packages both rely on the network time – or the time of the servers that it is running on. The IT people that we conferred with have already done the necessary updates from Microsoft, but will be standing by in the event that they need to update to Daylight Savings this manually.

Here is some information for end PC users out there who may notice that their clock does not update on March 11:

Unless you’ve already migrated to Windows Vista, your Windows platforms need to be updated. A patch is available for Windows XP Service Pack 2, but users running any OS older than that need to manually change their PC’s clock on March 11 – simply unclick the Control Panel setting that
tells the computer to automatically reset its clock for DST. For answeres to your questions, visit the Microsoft website.