Re: [NF] Microsoft not handling DST well

2007-03-09 Thread Michael Hawksworth
Despite it being on the cards for so long lots of systems are out of sync (Novell only just seem to have realised they need to do something about it). At least those of us in the UK can just sit back and watch the fun. Perhaps we could argue that whole new system updates are required for only

[NF] Microsoft not handling DST well

2007-03-08 Thread Whil Hentzen (Pro*)
You would have thought the world's largest and most profitable software company could have figured this one out The workstation patches are easy, the stand alone Outlook tool is no big deal. If you're running Exchange and you try to run the Exchange update tool 930879, good luck. It's a

Re: [NF] Microsoft not handling DST well

2007-03-08 Thread Ted Roche
On 3/8/07, Whil Hentzen (Pro*) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You would have thought the world's largest and most profitable software company could have figured this one out Well, sure, just look at their track record... I've checked, and all the Linux servers under my perview have updated to

Re: [NF] Microsoft not handling DST well

2007-03-08 Thread Richard Kaye
And in addition, if you have a W2K box there is no patch distributed via Windows Update because W2K is in maintenance mode and this apparently isn't considered a critical update. According to a co-worker, you have to pay MS $4000 to get a patch. OTOH there is a utility called TZEDIT that you

Re: [NF] Microsoft not handling DST well

2007-03-08 Thread Whil Hentzen (Pro*)
Ted Roche wrote: On 3/8/07, Whil Hentzen (Pro*) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You would have thought the world's largest and most profitable software company could have figured this one out Well, sure, just look at their track record... Ooops, I was listening to their marketing folks...

Re: [NF] Microsoft not handling DST well

2007-03-08 Thread Derek Kalweit
And in addition, if you have a W2K box there is no patch distributed via Windows Update because W2K is in maintenance mode and this apparently isn't considered a critical update. According to a co-worker, you have to pay MS $4000 to get a patch. OTOH there is a utility called TZEDIT that you

RE: [NF] Microsoft not handling DST well

2007-03-08 Thread mrgmhale
PROTECTED] Behalf Of Richard Kaye Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 2:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [NF] Microsoft not handling DST well And in addition, if you have a W2K box there is no patch distributed via Windows Update because W2K is in maintenance mode and this apparently isn't

Re: [NF] Microsoft not handling DST well

2007-03-08 Thread Matthew Jarvis
mrgmhale wrote: OTOH there is a utility called TZEDIT that you can run on pretty much any version of Windows and manually change the TZ info. Thanks for the Heads Up. I found that utility at: http://tss.uconn.edu/windowsdst.html! Gil So if one runs this util, how do you know it fixed

RE: [NF] Microsoft not handling DST well

2007-03-08 Thread mrgmhale
: Re: [NF] Microsoft not handling DST well mrgmhale wrote: OTOH there is a utility called TZEDIT that you can run on pretty much any version of Windows and manually change the TZ info. Thanks for the Heads Up. I found that utility at: http://tss.uconn.edu/windowsdst.html! Gil