On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Kenneth Albanowski wrote:
> (Also, note the difficulties involved with setting up an appointment book
> to properly use universal- and local-time. Should appointments stick to
> the same universal time, or should they refer to local time? If I'm
> setting up an appointment to meet somebody at Noon on the other coast,
> then local time is appropriate. But it's a different matter if I need to
> call the boss at 2:00 PM, his time.)
On this topic, I can't resist forward a recent posting on BugTraq, a
mailing list for security and other bugs in important pieces of software.
Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Apr 9 14:01:20 1999
Message Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 09:54:41 +0300
Message From: Anto Veldre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Message To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Message Subject: Lotus Notes Locations & DST
[...]
I am currently using the following Notes client program on my laptop:
Lotus 4.6a [Intl] 21 November 1997.
Some notes considering the summer time switching.
"Observe Daylight savings" is checked in my Notes client,
"Automatically adjust clock" is checked in "Control Panel->Date&Time"
Operating system is Win95 OSR2.
It happened last month that an important meeting was
appointed ( 23 of March 1999 10:00 , local time). After switching
to summer time (02:00 changed to 03:00 local time early morning
at 23rd of March, automatically, by OS), the meeting moved +1 hour
and appeared at 11:00.
I checked this with another party of the meeting, he saw the same
results on his PC. Luckily we both remebered the actual time....
I use Notes calendar function too rarely to make some/other final
conclusion.
Anto Veldre,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Kenneth Albanowski ([EMAIL PROTECTED], CIS: 70705,126)
