for the IT dudes. watch out DST is back

[pyrocam]

This only really applies to Exchange environments afaik.

If you haven't had anything reported yet, It may pay check your external meetings and the like. I am finding 50% of our clients are getting them an hour out because someones exchange server needs to be patched again.

Oh, and blackberries, oh Lordy, someone forgot to patch our BES server (rebuilt 5months ago)


If you need me to send you a meeting request to test, send me a pm,

Cheers

attached an example of whats happening:

[ManDownUnder]

LOL you've got it... it seems to be a global thing...

[PuppetMaster]

Its a concern you've only just got it. Do you work for the Government ?



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[Mom]

Have just finished putting patches on our system here, we had a new server installed Monday, and total mayhem has been the norm here with the DST issue. Factory based time clock software installed, the guys would be working away, go to claim their time and find they had only done a few mins because the clock had turned back an hour...LOL

[bungbung]

Are they the new niggers in the woodpile?

[Devil]

Its a concern you've only just got it. Do you work for the Government ?



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Even those of us who patched everything before the change are running into problems here. Currently having issues nailing down where the problem is, because some things work fine, some dont.

[pyrocam]

Even those of us who patched everything before the change are running into problems here. Currently having issues nailing down where the problem is, because some things work fine, some dont.

yeah pretty much.
its only been an issue since the weekend when we WOULD have changed back to normal (non DST) time

[WRT]

Even those of us who patched everything before the change are running into problems here. Currently having issues nailing down where the problem is, because some things work fine, some dont.

yeah pretty much.
its only been an issue since the weekend when we WOULD have changed back to normal (non DST) time

Us too, but so far only one user has been effected and it was a couple of recurring appointments that were set up prior to the DST patches being applied. Hasn't effected anyone else, so I just deleted and re-created the effected appointments (I figured that if I didn't, then it's only gonna be an issue again at the start of DST later on in the year).

[Ixion]

Mutter . Mutter. Bill F Gates. Smeared with honey, lots of hungrey fireants. Red hot poker. Bloody Windoze.

Not just Exchange. Lotus Notes, anything running Windows Mobile, half the Windoze desktops , including some that have been patched.

Absurd rediculous performance to deal with something so simple

Oh, and the Linux and AIX boxes just did whatever they needed to do or not do, no issues.

Bloody Windoz. Mutter. Mutter.

[aderino4]

GRRMMBBHHMMA!!!!!!!!

Not Microsoft fault if Department of Internal Affairs decided to change DST.. I can never understand the logic of that anyway.

We had a couple of Macs running Panter 10.3.x and they just don't want to assume the new DST. So had to be manually adjusted.

A couple of Windows machines tho fully updated had issues with calendar especially when collaborating between office 2003 and 2007 and accross network a whole bunch of other parameters as well.

WHY DO YOU HAVE TO CHANGE THE DST DATESSS DAMMIT

[Gremlin]

amusing one that has snuck up on us has been the "smart"/pda mobiles, had it on my own e61. hmmm times gone back, weird... mmmm must be DST. Re-set time.

and watch all your appointments go wacko Phone moves everything to an hour earlier, sync it up, and outlook thinks its an hour earlier

only way around it (phone manufacturers seem to be incredibly slack when it comes to patches) is to suddenly be in tonga (ie, +13 hours)

fucken gubbermints

[Zapf]

is to suddenly be in tonga (ie, +13 hours)

fucken gubbermints

So we pay tax to Tonga now right?

[Ixion]

GRRMMBBHHMMA!!!!!!!!

Not Microsoft fault if Department of Internal Affairs decided to change DST.. I can never understand the logic of that anyway.

..

Is Microshit fault for doing something so downright stupid as to build the DST dates inot the core OS!


What moron made that decision. Surely it must have been obvious that sooner or later some government would chnage its dates?

Why not just do what AIX does. make it configurable. Start smitty , 'Daylight Saving' option, enter date(s) and time(s) it starts, ditto finishes and offset. Done. If it changes, just change the config.