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11 March 2007

Well, doesn't that figure. After patching dozens of machines because OMG TIMEZONES!!1!, I discover this morning that I forgot to patch my own machines. Carpenter, House, wreck, always.

post by: eriko at: 07:29 | 14 comments

Mine were patched, but I had to right click the Time Display, click Adjust Date/Time, click Time Zone tab, and check "Adjust for daylight saving time automatically" to make it work, on the Windows XP laptop. Desktop was fine.

posted by paulsc 11 March | 08:03

My machine thinks it's 1907.

posted by Smart Dalek 11 March | 08:17

So do I.

posted by disclaimer 11 March | 09:12

You steampunks!

posted by GeckoDundee 11 March | 09:20

my linux box updated itself months ago. you mean you had to *do* something to winderz???? how, uh, quaint.

posted by quonsar 11 March | 09:32

Your linux box went onto daylight saving months ago, quonsar? Time to hand back the pink shirt and step away from the microphone, I think.

posted by GeckoDundee 11 March | 09:58

See, my FreeBSD boxen update themselves when I tell them too, rather than letting J Random Update screw everything up.

It was my fault, of course, for not patching them. The fix took five minutes total, for four machines.

No 1907 here, alas.

posted by eriko 11 March | 10:55

The windows patch failed on a lot of machines until the user re-selected Daylight Savings Time.

posted by theora55 11 March | 11:10

It's daylight savings? Ah, no wonder today felt an hour off - *adjusts wristwatch*

posted by dabitch 11 March | 11:48

I did the Window patch this morning. Took about two minutes and I didn't even have to reboot.

posted by deborah 11 March | 12:32

I didn't have to patch, mine just fixed itself somehow.

posted by kellydamnit 11 March | 14:07

Mine didn't do shit. Now I'm gonna be messing with this thing all day.

posted by puke & cry 11 March | 16:07

I must have missed some sort of memo - why would you have to patch Windows to adjust for daylight savings time? At the very worst, couldn't you just manually adjust the time forward/back twice a year? Is that so hard?

posted by dg 11 March | 17:49

Windows does actually adjust for daylight saving (if you want it to). The problem this year is that the seppoes have gone from starting DST on the first Sunday in April to starting it on the second Sunday of March. (The end is moving too, with the net effect being more daylight saving). Next year it will be longer still, hence another change to the times. The year after it will all go back to what it used to be because it's too much hassle.

All to do with global warming or something. Read about it here.

posted by GeckoDundee 11 March | 18:26

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