On 3/11/07, mrgmhale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I am still here despite the much feared, even more hated, Daylight Saving
> Time change!  And all of my business PCs updated correctly (including the
> NT4SP6a Server with a 3rd party patch).  The M$ Win2000ProSP4 patch even
> worked!

My blogging...

The smoke clears after the DST spring-ahead …
By tedroche

… and we'll see if any news develops. Either: nothing will happen and
news media will point at IT for once again crying Y2K wolf, despite a
lot of sysadmins sleepless nights last week and this weekend. Or some
major system will fail and the media will conclude IT isn't taking
their role seriously enough. Either way we lose, eh?

Here's the score here at Roche Manor: a power blackout at 0045 this
morning reset most of the home appliances for us, so we could just
find all the stuff blinking "12:00″ to reset. One Win2K laptop reset
fine, thanks to our manual intervention with tzedit.exe in advance.
One WinXPPro machine sprung two hours in advance instead of one. Two
Linux laptops and three Linux servers Just Worked Fine. And the iMac
wonders what all the fuss is about.

Now we wait to see what happens on the traditional Spring Ahead Day…

P.S. Two WinbXPPro laptops sprang x2 hours. I think each was booted
into Linux first, and perhaps that updated the computer's clock before
the Windows machine. Resetting the WinXPPro machines by having them
synch with the internet time servers seemed to clear it up. I don't
run any software on the machines know to be DST-incompliant (Outlook,
Exchange, etc.)

-- 
Ted Roche
Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
http://www.tedroche.com


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