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 into scene with a solution. Not the way it happens and builds your frustration with Windows.
Food for thought, just an example of someone supporting their OS user base on a similar topic. To err is human, to fix the errors should also be: http://support.apple.com/kb/TA24568?viewlocale=en_US Cheers, Edgardo Molina Dirección IPTEL www.iptel.net.mx T : 55 55 55202444 M : 04455 20501854 Piensa en Bits SA de CV Información anexa: CONFIDENCIALIDAD DE INFORMACION Este mensaje tiene carácter confidencial. Si usted no es el destinarario de este mensaje, le suplicamos se lo notifique al remitente mediante un correo electrónico y que borre el presente mensaje y sus anexos de su computadora sin retener una copia de los mismos. Queda estrictamente prohibido copiar este mensaje o hacer usode el para cualquier propósito o divulgar su en forma parcial o total su contenido. Gracias. NON-DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION This email is strictly confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient please immediately advise the sender by replying to this e-mail and then deleting the message and its attachments from your computer without keeping a copy. It is strictly forbidden to copy it or use it for any purpose or disclose its contents to any third party. Thank you. On Nov 2, 2012, at 11:32 PM, Sarah White <kuze...@gmail.com> 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. > > 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://support.microsoft.com/kb/2687252 > > Article ID: 2687252 - Last Review: March 13, 2012 - Revision: 4.0 > > APPLIES TO > Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition > Microsoft Windows XP Professional > Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3 > Windows Vista Business > Windows Vista Enterprise > Windows Vista Home Premium > Windows Vista Ultimate > Windows Vista Service Pack 1 > Windows Vista Service Pack 2 > Windows 7 Enterprise > Windows 7 Home Basic > Windows 7 Home Premium > Windows 7 Professional > Windows 7 Ultimate > Windows 7 Service Pack 1 > Windows Server 2008 Datacenter > Windows Server 2008 Enterprise > Windows Server 2008 Standard > Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 > Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter > Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise > Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard > Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 > Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 > > ... Pretty sure that's 100% of all recent versions of windows. The whole > thing started because windows 3.1 / 95 / 98 / 2000 / ME / etc. etc. etc. > were all targeted with being backward compatible with the previous OS > leading all the way back to DOS (first versions of DOS were coming out > in 1981 the year I was born) > > For where I live, this weekend is the "change your clocks" for the > fall... or don't, or do something else... petition microsoft maybe? > > I'd love for windows 7 to have a fix for this since I'm not upgrading to > the horrible looking windows 8 --- windows 7 will be in extended support > until 2020 (( reference: http://goo.gl/unxvj )) so I figure let's try to > get them to fix it in the next few years. I'm serious about this. > > Let's fix this timezone problem!!! > > Pretty much every other operating system vendor out there (various POSIX > platforms including more than one version of BSD, linux and even mac OSX > since under the hood it is a POSIX based operating system) it is an > option to leave the hardeware real-time-clock (bios clock) on UTC. > > Ok that's all I'm typing on this. > > Angry at several of my clocks today, > Sarah White > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.