On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 03:03:06PM +0300, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 02:27:57PM +0300, Uri Even-Chen wrote: > > Ira Abramov wrote: > > >that's because MS are a**h&&es and don't think Israel uses summer clock. > > >Asia/Jerusalem on win machines is GMT+2 year round > > > > I hate to defend Microsoft, but it's not their fault. Most countries > that have daylight savings time set it to a standard such as starting > the first Sunday in April and ending the first Sunday in October and > NEVER change it.
In Brazil things are even worse. What does Windows do there? > > In Israel, the start of daylight savings is a politcal issue and changes > whenever an M.K. has nothing better to do and wants to make some news > for his party. Since it affects whether or not people go to morning > prayers in darkness, on when the fast days start, it is also a > relegious issue. This is the past. As of last year the date for the clock change is set in the law. > > This year is a prime example, the end of daylight savings time changed > recently. Microsoft just gave up and decided to let those who care fix it, > and those that don't ignore it. > > Even if they had produced a patch, how many people would apply it? I know > people "happly" running windows 95 and 98 (first edition) who have NEVER > applied a patch in their lives. Ever heard of "windows updates"? At least give people the option to do the right thing. > > In Windows/xp there is an automatic patch mechanism. Even in win98. > How many people you > know that run Windows use it? How many on this list would recommend it? > Since it's not a "security patch", it's only available to users who > actually bought a license for Windows. What percent of Windows systems > in Israel actually have a valid license? That's their problem. It gives Microsoft yet another place to demonstrate where a legal copy is better, doessn't it? > > Did Red Hat, Suse, DebIan, Ubuntu, Knoppix, Mandrivia, etc produce a > "high priority patch for Israel only"? Did the UNIX vendors Sun, Apple > (I'll have to check my Macintosh)? Did IBM produce one for their Mainframes, > and automaticly apply it? Not Isreali-specific. But glibc regularily updates, and it is quite rare to have an up-to-date distro glibc package and incorrect Israeli timezone data. Not since 2001. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849755 | | friend ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
