Is it just coincidence that this is for April's 1st?   Aprils fools.....


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 7:59 PM
Subject: Re: Micro$oft strikes again!


> We discovered the fix M$ distributed doesn't work.  They've know about the
> bug for 5 years and never fixed it.  The bug only hits when savings time
> switches on 04/01.  If we leave if along, it'll fix itself next week. In
the
> mean time, all our real-time messaging is one hour off.  It can cost us
BIG
> $$$!
>
> mw
>
> "Michael R. Jinks" wrote:
> >
> > FWIW they announced this a month or so ago on (IIRC) BugTraq.  I
> > understand that it's a once-only problem, the "Y2K+1" bug.  Har har har
> > har har har har.
> >
> > Mike Watson wrote:
> > >
> > > Well MS did it to us again. NT4.0 has a bug for switching to savings
time.
> > > MS missed the date by a week!  We had to manually set the time offset
> > > manually.  In a week, we'll have to set it back when NT correctly
figures
> > > out that savings time has arrived.  Appears to only occur on servers
> > > though.  Desktops appear OK.
> > >
> > > Mike W
> > >
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> > --
> > ~~~Michael Jinks, IB // Technical Entity // Saecos Corporation~~~~
> > "We've done our best, but you're still hosed." -- W. Stearns, ISTS
> > Opinions expressed above are my own, and not those of my computer.
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