____/ skydweller on Thursday 01 November 2007 21:14 : \____
> I work for a large financial concern. There was some uneasiness about the
> DST change last weekend; I and others were invited to a conference call in
> the wee hours of Sunday morning to make sure the time on our 'nix boxes
> didn't fall back an hour. We had patched everything last winter and early
> spring, but you can't be too sure ...
>
> False alarm - everything was fine. Outside of the annoyance of receiving
> *four* different Windows updates to my workstation via SMS starting at 1:30
> AM, that is. It's really difficult to do anything when your machine keeps
> rebooting. Fortunately, I have exceptional skills.
>
> But I digress. Imagine my surprise on Monday when my Outlook Calendar
> showed that my standing 3PM meeting was now scheduled for 4PM. Not
> thinking too well after having not slept over the weekend, I called the
> meeting organizer to ask why he had rescheduled this, knowing that I leave
> the office at 4PM. He angrily informed me that he had done no such thing.
> Then it dawned on me - DST strikes again! This had happened in the spring,
> and it didn't occur to me that it would still be a problem.
>
> Oh, and our teleconferencing software doesn't know the correct time at the
> moment, either.
>
> And *Linux* has DST issues?
Haha... only if you listen to Microsoft marketers. From the past few months:
Microsoft preps customers early in hopes of avoiding DST fallout
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=718
Bang Goes the DST Time Bomb
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| Monday brought more jeers than cheers from IT organizations
| about daylight-saving time fixes and the immediate impact
| on Microsoft software.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/business_applications/bang_goes_the_dst_time_bomb.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
http://tinyurl.com/ynsvra
Microsoft Customers Irate over Daylight-Saving Time Woes
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| Updated: This year's daylight-saving time change is causing major
| frustration for IT administrators running Microsoft programs that
| need to be individually patched to reflect the change.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2102366,00.asp
No Saving Time in Microsoft DST Patches?
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| IT managers are feeling grumpy about Microsoft's preparations for
| this year's early daylight-saving time. If anything, the situation
| shines another glaring light on patch management problems, how long
| Microsoft supports products and how much longer businesses tend to
| use them.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/operating_systems/no_saving_time_in_microsoft_dst_patches.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
http://tinyurl.com/2rvf3a
Microsoft customers melting down over Daylight Saving patches
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| 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
Microsoft Cuts Price of Daylight Savings Time Patches
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| For users running that software, Microsoft charges $4,000 per product
| for DST fixes.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,129550-c,industrynews/article.html
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