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So apparently DST will occur in March now and end in November

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Originally posted by: iamwiz82
Originally posted by: Jeff7
Whose bright idea was it to change DST?

"Yay, let's screw with the clocks some more!!!"


(I don't even like the whole DST idea to begin with.)
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I vote MS trying to get people off of Windows 2000. 😛
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Yeah, upgrade to Vista for amazingly correct DST!!

Anyone know if this new DST applies to Canada as well?
 
Originally posted by: Sureshot324
Originally posted by: iamwiz82
Originally posted by: Jeff7
Whose bright idea was it to change DST?

"Yay, let's screw with the clocks some more!!!"


(I don't even like the whole DST idea to begin with.)
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I vote MS trying to get people off of Windows 2000. 😛
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Yeah, upgrade to Vista for amazingly correct DST!!

Anyone know if this new DST applies to Canada as well?
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Yeap. Gonna be hell for us up here. I hate DST, what day light are we saving when the office doesn't even turn their light off at night?
 
I'm not an admin, but there is loads of software that I deal with who have been providing patches that require testing etc. PITA. I'm almost done my portion of the work, and now await the larger OS fixes.
 
Originally posted by: Winchester
Sync desktop/workstation time with server FTW.
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When you send out a meeting request, you choose the time based on your time zone, e.g. 12PM PST. Recipients not in the same time zone will see the correctly offset time.
 
Originally posted by: iamwiz82
Did you guys see the Outlook fix? Yeah, I'm going to trust every user to run the program themselves on their mailboxes. :roll:
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Outlook doesn't use the system clock? That's kind of silly.

I'm updating Office now. Since there isn't any sort of automatic Office Update like there is for Windows (I guess I haven't even looked), I didn't have SP2, so I'm getting that now. After that's done hopefully I can install any DST updates I might need.
 
I updated 2200 2003 server boxes the Windows hotfix has predictable errorlevels 0 for success 1603 for already been done.

Just wrote a batch and sent it down. Not a big deal....

Not running anysoftware that doesn't reference the system time on these boxes, luckily.

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for clarity
 
Originally posted by: djheater
I updated 2200 boxes the fix has predictable errorlevels 0 for success 1603 for already been done.

Just wrote a batch and sent it down. Not a big deal....
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mine goes to 100,000 end points in about an hour. i used an .exe to include the server2003 and xp patch together

my epen!s is bigger 😛

😉
 
Originally posted by: FoBoT
Originally posted by: djheater
I updated 2200 boxes the fix has predictable errorlevels 0 for success 1603 for already been done.

Just wrote a batch and sent it down. Not a big deal....
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mine goes to 100,000 end points in about an hour. i used an .exe to include the server2003 and xp patch together

my epen!s is bigger 😛

😉
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No doubt.

I'd hate to be end user admin, as I imagine you are... to many nutjobs messing with stuff.
my sandbox is a nice tightly controlled stand alone server running Oracle and a point of sale app, users rdp in over terminal services from a thin-client device and we've locked down their workstation to be pretty much a kiosk. THey can't do crap but click, and type in the app.

I rule their environment with an iron fist. The less they can do, the less they can break.
 
We just got our Exchange and BES servers updated.

What's going to happen to routers and firewalls? The logs are going to be screwed if these aren't updated.
 
My alarm clock automatically adjusts for DST. Now I have to throw it away or start changing it 4 times a year.
 
Originally posted by: Skotty
My alarm clock automatically adjusts for DST. Now I have to throw it away or start changing it 4 times a year.
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This causes me to wonder what will have a greater environmental impact... the supposed theoretical "savings" from increasing the amount of time over which DST is "active," or the waste production from all those hard-coded alarm clocks that have to be thrown away? Oh well, not that this matters to politicians, as I'm sure there was some greater political agenda underneath than just "saving the environment."

</tongue location="cheek">
 
I think the change in DST is a good idea, the more daylight the earlier the better. And this will almost definitely be the last change, no way will they push it even earlier into February.

For those that say the whole idea of DST is dumb, it really isn't. If we didn't do it, we'd stay on the time we're on NOW all year, losing an entire hour of daylight compared to what we're used to. It makes sense to give up some daylight in the morning for more in the evening, especially in the summer.
 
Originally posted by: archcommus
I think the change in DST is a good idea, the more daylight the earlier the better. And this will almost definitely be the last change, no way will they push it even earlier into February.
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Never say never.

Originally posted by: archcommus
For those that say the whole idea of DST is dumb, it really isn't. If we didn't do it, we'd stay on the time we're on NOW all year, losing an entire hour of daylight compared to what we're used to. It makes sense to give up some daylight in the morning for more in the evening, especially in the summer.
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They could have just left it DST all year long, nullifying the need for a change, ever.
 
Originally posted by: akshatp
Originally posted by: archcommus
I think the change in DST is a good idea, the more daylight the earlier the better. And this will almost definitely be the last change, no way will they push it even earlier into February.
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Never say never.

Originally posted by: archcommus
For those that say the whole idea of DST is dumb, it really isn't. If we didn't do it, we'd stay on the time we're on NOW all year, losing an entire hour of daylight compared to what we're used to. It makes sense to give up some daylight in the morning for more in the evening, especially in the summer.
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They could have just left it DST all year long, nullifying the need for a change, ever.
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That would make it dark way too long in the morning.
 
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