> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Garl Grigsby > Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 7:51 AM > To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group > Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] Daylight Savings Time > > > > At work, I updated my Windows machine today, and sure > enough, I looked > > at an Outlook weekly appointment for next week that should show for > > 9am. It shows as 10am. For the next three weeks, the > appointment shows > > at 10am. Then starting in April, the appointment shows > correctly again > > -- 9am for the remaining weeks of the year. Even the last week in > > October shows correctly, suggesting to me that the MS patch > fixed only > > the March dates. > There is a tool to correct appts in the 'in between weeks'. > It needs to be run on both the client and, assuming exchange, > the server side. [1] As I understand it the server just > stores the date and time, but not the UTC offset. This is why > there are sooooo many problems with creating meetings across > timezones in exchange/outlook. If I create an all day appt in > PST, it shows as starting at 9pm the day before and ending at > 9pm the day of, in EST. Lovely, eh? > > Garl
Bleh. That last bit is going to be in future textbooks under the chapter "Good Examples of Bad Software". We're also dealing with this Exchange issue. People couldn't figure out why their meetings scheduled at 2pm were being shifted to 3pm, for example. I'm going to patch our Exchange server tonight, and I warned everyone to print their March calendars today, because at this point, I don't know what to expect. I only waited this long because the first patch released for Exchange caused several other Exchange servers on campus to be unable to mount their information stores. The second patch to fix the first patch came out the week before last I think (and I put it off to see if there were a few others who might try it first). I don't know whether to more frustrated with MS or Congress. DST is a bandaid that missed it's mark by a mile. Whatever - I'm glad I'm stocked up on homebrew for this sleeper Y2k.... - Jason L. _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
