__/ [ Robert Newson ] on Sunday 11 March 2007 15:01 \__
> Robert Parsonage wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 14:18:26 +0000, Doug Mentohl wrote:
>>
>>>'Microsoft announced on Thursday that doesn't plan to issue any
>>>security updates next week in a rare break from its regular monthly
>>>Patch Tuesday update cycle'
>>>
>>>'the absence of updates is the result of the upcoming Sunday switch
>>>in some geographies to Daylight Savings (Summer) Time. This new
>>>schedule for Daylight Savings Time may affect some software packages'
>>
>> Typical, to be expected and utterly pathetic. Why should a change to
>> when DST is done 'affect some software packages'? The SW to do this is
>> already there. Its just the date that's changed!
>
> The way everythig is so spaghettied together, it wouldn't surprise me in
> the least if patching DST caused something else to break, similarly
> patching something else caused DST patch to break.
Microsoft customers melting down over Daylight Saving patches
,----[ Quote ]
| A number of users in the DST chat room are reporting problems
| getting their Blackberry servers and devices to sync up with
| their DST-patched Exchange servers. Others, in spite of Microsoft
| warnings to apply DST patches in a specific order, are running
| into problems because they are attempting to patch Exchange
| before Windows.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=307
See comments therein (and elsewhere). It's never a rosy eXPerience.
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