Dan Lewis wrote: > On Thursday February 01 2007 6:22 am, Uwe Fischer wrote: >> Keith Bates wrote: >> > On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:08:06 -0800 >> > >> > "Whitely, Betsy J." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Is OpenOffice compliant with the Daylight Savings Time change >> >> happening in March? >> >> >> >> Thanks! >> > >> > Daylight Savings is usually handled by the operating system (eg >> > Windows). >> >> so it will happen some months later this year, unless you pay for >> the Beta? ;-) > > Mandriva Linux and possibly other Linux distributions have a > small program that will keep the computer clock in sync with the > atomic clocks on the web. Does Windows have a similar program? I > would think so. For those in the USA using Windows, it should just be > a matter of installing and then running the program while connected > to the internet. At least this would be a good starting point. > > Dan
I'm sure glad I finally have *all* of my primary systems converted to linux... note this part in the "letter": <quote> and <cough> Microsoft is providing the Time Zone updates at no-cost for customers on Windows platforms that are covered by Mainstream Support. For more information on the Microsoft Support Lifecycle Policy including options available for products in Extended Support, please visit http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle. </quote> And if you go to http://www.microsoft.com/windows/timezone/dst2007.mspx you'll see that M$ won't provide a free fix for Windows 2000/2000P/2000 Server/Win98x. However they are kind enough to point out: <quote> All versions of Windows can be manually updated using the tzedit.exe utility or other techniques documented in Knowledge Base article 914387, webcast 930688, and similar articles for other countries, which is the preferred method of remediation for any product outside of Mainstream Support. (The tzedit.exe tool allows you to create and edit time zone entries for the Date/Time settings in the Control Panel, especially for daylight-saving time). </quote> Anyway, back to the OP's question: > Is OpenOffice compliant with the Daylight Savings Time change happening > in March? > > Thanks! Answer is yes... as long as your OS or computer clock sync device/site is :-) And if you are going to use ntp to sync your clock, please consider using the ntp pool servers instead of direct ntp timeservers, see: http://www.pool.ntp.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
