Re: [time-nuts] For my whole life timezones have been weird

2012-11-03 Thread Alberto di Bene
On 11/3/2012 6:31 PM, Orin Eman wrote: There was also OS/2... The best OpSys ever killed by IBM itself, as an internal, confidential, report indicated that developing middleware for Windows NT could produce much more revenues than continuing to develop OS/2... So they decided to let it

Re: [time-nuts] For my whole life timezones have been weird

2012-11-03 Thread Orin Eman
On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Jim Lux wrote: > On 11/3/12 8:50 AM, Chris Albertson wrote: > >> >> That is the root cause of all Window's problems. The company was run be a >> "chief software architect" who technically very ignorant and lacked any >> formal education in the subject. Windows st

Re: [time-nuts] For my whole life timezones have been weird

2012-11-03 Thread DaveH
common printer. Dave > -Original Message- > From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com > [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Chris Albertson > Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2012 08:50 > To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement > Subject: Re: [time-nuts]

Re: [time-nuts] For my whole life timezones have been weird

2012-11-03 Thread Bob Camp
Hi Possibly because they run multiple very large / very expensive software packages that are Windows only items. Bob On Nov 3, 2012, at 11:50 AM, Chris Albertson wrote: > On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 10:32 PM, Sarah White wrote: > >> So, at or around 1981 (the year I was born) there was a cool c

Re: [time-nuts] For my whole life timezones have been weird

2012-11-03 Thread Alberto di Bene
On 11/3/2012 6:32 AM, Sarah White wrote: /Wonder if there is any sensible way to petition microsoft to fix this stupid mistake dating back to the DOS era. Windows 8 / metro is out now, and I can't bloody stand the changes. Would be nice if windows 7 had an update to fix this issue: //http://sup

Re: [time-nuts] For my whole life timezones have been weird

2012-11-03 Thread Jim Lux
On 11/3/12 8:50 AM, Chris Albertson wrote: On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 10:32 PM, Sarah White wrote: So, at or around 1981 (the year I was born) there was a cool concept. IBM was selling "personal computers" (IBM-PC compatible later became a thing) and by the time I was old enough to operate a modem

Re: [time-nuts] For my whole life timezones have been weird

2012-11-03 Thread Chris Albertson
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 10:32 PM, Sarah White wrote: > So, at or around 1981 (the year I was born) there was a cool concept. > IBM was selling "personal computers" (IBM-PC compatible later became a > thing) and by the time I was old enough to operate a modem, I had one > myself. Life was good. > >

Re: [time-nuts] For my whole life timezones have been weird

2012-11-03 Thread David C. Partridge
...@lazygranch.com Sent: 03 November 2012 08:38 To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] For my whole life timezones have been weird Microsoft also does updates regarding the day daylight savings time changes, similar to that Apple message. I suspect I'm not foll

Re: [time-nuts] For my whole life timezones have been weird

2012-11-03 Thread lists
sion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] For my whole life timezones have been weird Dear Sarah, Good morning. I just returned home from a long and difficult customer data center migration. I thought of sharing that I feel the same way as you do regarding

Re: [time-nuts] For my whole life timezones have been weird

2012-11-03 Thread Sarah White
On 11/3/2012 8:02 AM, Edgardo Molina wrote: > Dear Sarah, > > Good morning. I just returned home from a long and difficult customer data > center migration. I thought of sharing that I feel the same way as you do > regarding your thread. Things should always behave like a Mac or Linux, in > whi

Re: [time-nuts] For my whole life timezones have been weird

2012-11-03 Thread Edgardo Molina
Dear Sarah, Good morning. I just returned home from a long and difficult customer data center migration. I thought of sharing that I feel the same way as you do regarding your thread. Things should always behave like a Mac or Linux, in which if there is a glitch, the OS responsible party jumps

[time-nuts] For my whole life timezones have been weird

2012-11-02 Thread Sarah White
So, at or around 1981 (the year I was born) there was a cool concept. IBM was selling "personal computers" (IBM-PC compatible later became a thing) and by the time I was old enough to operate a modem, I had one myself. Life was good. Wonder if there is any sensible way to petition microsoft to fix