Friday, March 12, 2010

Daylight Savings Time Notice

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D2L has notified us of a potential issue based on the switch to Daylight Savings Time. If you have exams scheduled for Saturday night, please be aware of the following information:

"Daylight Savings Time (DST) begins this weekend. In preparation for the change in time, we would like to make you aware of potential issues with quizzes during the change in time.

Please be aware you should monitor quizzes as there could potentially be problems with retrieving or accessing data that is date/time stamp dependent.

This affects:

·Quizzes with due dates set between , 8:00pm Saturday, March 13th ET and , 2:00 am Sunday, March 14th YOUR LOCAL TIME ZONE and/or
·Quizzes with time restrictions started prior to , 8:00 pm Saturday, March 13th ET and , 2:00 am Sunday, March 14th YOUR LOCAL TIME ZONE


Please be aware you should monitor quizzes as there could potentially be problems with retrieving or accessing data that is date/time stamp dependent."

David Chatham has confirmed with D2L that if a quiz or restriction date is reset outside of the Saturday, 6 PM MT (translated from ET) to Sunday 2 AM MT (our time zone), there should be no problem.

If you have questions or concerns, please email me directly at donna.welschmeyer@cccs.edu

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