<quote who="Rick Welykochy">

> Similar for Westpac:  "Online Banking will be unavailable due to scheduled
> maintenance from 02:50 to 04:15 AEST on Sunday 4 April 2010."
> Another one not using Linux.

Not sure what Linux has to do with this -- there's far more going on (with
dates and times especially) in a complex stack of software than just the OS.
Consider the amount of legacy software and multi-system integration involved
in a bank's computing environment.

Sorry dudes, but this just sounds like Open Source snootiness from the small
end of town.

Seriously, just look at half the MySQL-based Open Source applications around
you... Example: WordPress only gained automagically updating named timezones
(rather than manual offsets) in 2.7 or 2.8. Fat load of good "Linux" [1] did
in that case.

- Jeff

[1] It's not like you're talking about the Linux kernel here, either.

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