Bob, do you really think that the temperature of the day will change? Surely not???
Best Regards Hugh Griffiths -----Original Message----- From: WAMUG Mailing List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Howells Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 4:51 PM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Re: Daylight Saving About this ..... DAYLIGHT STEALING ...... Yeah ! STEALING .... my beautiful cool morning .... they can keep their hot afternoon's ! Seems to me there's one thing everyone has overlooked ! DOWNUNDER in Sydney and Melbourne they have been STEALING the MORNINGS for a few years now 1 What do they do ??? Bob and just for the record my clock will be staying put ! They are not going to stuff up my day ! On 28/11/2006, at 4:29 PM, James Devenish wrote: > Hi all, > > I am guessing that the best option really is to set your timezone to > Osaka on Sunday. As people have noted, NTP (network time servers) > provide GMT and your computer makes up its own mind thereafter. Even > if Apple could release a patch this week, the experience with > Microsoft suggests that you might want to avoid it anyway. I guess it > depends whether Mac OS X Server is affected, for those who use it. If > you had not already done so, enabling timezone awareness in iCal will > hopefully cause it to automatically display the corrected DST/Osaka > times in your calendar (just as if you were travelling). > > Apparently Microsoft released a patch for daylight saving (for > selected products only), but it causes Exchange Server to crash, and > although Microsoft recommends rolling back the patch, its instructions > for doing so are a dead end. In any case, the patch doesn't fix all > your events in Outlook, so Microsoft recommends that you print out > your appointments onto paper as a backup and then change them all by > hand!!! And even worse, if you have already applied Microsoft's patch, > your appointments may be an hour out of step already, but it depends > on how your Windows Registry was configured at the time you installed > the patch. > > Whether or not you set your timezone to Osaka, just keep an eye out if > you use any websites that are timezone sensitive (e.g., here I am > using Google's Gmail), or if you use a corporate server that is > located outside WA. Who knows what will happen in December...I don't > imagine every other country is going to bend over backwards to patch > their servers just because WA Parliament enacted some half-baked > policy on the run with half a minute's notice... > > James. > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail, including any attached files, may contain confidential and privileged information for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any review, use, distribution, or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the intended recipient), please contact the sender by reply e-mail and delete all copies of this message.
