Today I received a friendly reminder that come the 11th of this month, I had better make sure that my Pocket PC was ready for the change to the way we experience Daylight Savings Time here in the US.

In years past, our Pocket PCs would simply update themselves for the time change as needed, no problem there. Unfortunately however, my mobile was on Cingular’s list of affected devices that required the installation of a corrective patch.

Oh no, I use Linux and the Cingular tute is only available for ActiveSync on Windows.

When I first gazed on this tute explaining the method to be used to install the DST2007 patch, I was curious as to whether a boot into Windows was going to be needed? After looking closer, I found out that by using this method,those of us on Ubuntu can easily get the required patch to our Pocket PCs easily and quickly, with no fuss whatsoever.

Is your mobile phone ready for the change?

So again, is your phone ready for the change? If you have not received any text messages, alerts on your last bill or anything like that, then I would be extra sure by visiting your carrier’s website in case any details were slipping through. Cingular (now AT&T) was kind enough to text me a message. With any luck, your carrier did the same for you.