wats the deal? at work they are installing patches?

don't they just change the time of the PC?

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Outlook wont recognise the changes apparently... we're still fucking around with patches.

Mind you though - if you go into your date and time properties - if there is a "Daylight savings" tick box, it should be fine.

Some versions of the OS don't.

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I don't mind coming to work, but that eight hour wait to go home is just bullshit....

there is a link for the patch on here somewhere...

patch fixes the operating system time fine
But does not update any appointments you have already booked in outlook
what a pile of pox

always a good excuse when you roll up to a meeting an hour late i guess

outlook 2003 with exchange 2003 will not recognise the timezone change, outlook 2007 will though.

apply the patch and check your calendar appointments on sunday to make sure they are correct. (they should be appearing 1 hour earlier and require correction.)

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Long live the WRC

Most calendaring applications including Outlook and Lotus notes use GMT as a
base for scheduling meetings. We are GMT+8, Sydney are currently GMT+11
a total of 3 hours ahead of us.

Imagine this...
You want to have a conference call with your friend in Sydney at 10:00 Perth
time. Your Outlook schedules it as 2:00GMT in Outlook. When you look at it
your local machine checks the timezone (GMT+8) add the 8 hours and shows
you 10am. Your friends machine in Sydney looks at his local time (GMT+11)
and shows him 1pm. That means that you are both going to ring each other
at the correct time.

Problems without a patch... And simply moving the clock...
Now if we simply move the PC clock on the Perth machine forward 1 hour, it still
thinks it is 8 hours ahead of GMT. That means that when 2:00GMT is reached,
you will be an hour late ! Your friend in Sydney would have given up an hour ago.

The fix... When the patch is applied, outlook and other apps know that
between the "daylight savings" dates that it must adjust for GMT+9. So when
you have your meeting with your friend, your PC knows that it is an hour ahead,
but GMT has not moved.

Long explanation I know, but trust me it is worth doing. In fact it is important
to even patch the other machines which are not in WA if users in those other
states are expecting to use outlook or other collaboration software across the
country.

An even worse problem is Kerberos authentication that will fail if GMT is out by
more than 5 minutes or so across a WAN. There will be many small businesses
with failing systems. State Govt are dickheads to give us 9 days to prepare
for this. The big companies are ready, but small commerce and business will
have problems.

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Got a watch? Move it forward 1 hour - BINGO! Problem solved.

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applied the fkn patch and all the meetings are out by 1 hour.

roll back time

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Thats coz the Govt are dickheads and gave no warning. If the system
knew about it earlier (like in the east) then patch would have already
been out and outlook would have known about the daylight savings
before you put the meetings in. Now it will have trouble with meetings
put in before the patch was applied.

A known issue and another example of how the govt are irresponsible
pricks and don't think things through. Rant over...

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