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Unofficial Win2K Daylight Saving Time Fix

Posted by kdawson on from the it's-about-time dept.

Saturn2003a writes "Microsoft has stated that they will not be offering a patch for the new US Daylight Saving Time for Windows 2000 and earlier. Only customers with an extended support agreement can get a Hotfix from Microsoft. To get around this, IntelliAdmin has created an unofficial patch (source code provided) that will fix Daylight Saving Time on Windows 2000 and Windows NT machines."

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  1. Re:Hm... by breser · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Nope, more like the US decided to switch to metric and people complaining that Ford won't replace their English unit speedometer with one that has more prominent markings for metric. In both cases, the product still works but external factors make it less convenient. With Ford you have to look at the smaller metric markings. With Microsoft, you have to manually update the clock for daylight savings time twice a year. Neither case is a malfunction.

  2. Re:and it's.... by camperdave · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think it's about time that we just split the difference, adjust the clock by half an hour, and leave it there.

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  3. Re:My fix - avoid vendors that act like assholes. by pixelpusher220 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I dislike M$ as much as the next /. poster, but saying W2K is 'broken' in this case is a bit of a stretch. The gov't changed the rules governing daylight savings time; it's not like it *wasn't* right before.


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  4. Re:I'll stretch it by EXMSFT · · Score: 4, Insightful

    download and install patches from a web site operated by the government

    And now for another episode of, "Good Idea, Bad Idea"

    Seriously... downloading patches from a website operated by the government?

  5. But they're still an asshole. by Dcnjoe60 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    [I]I dislike M$ as much as the next /. poster, but saying W2K is 'broken' in this case is a bit of a stretch. The gov't changed the rules governing daylight savings time; it's not like it *wasn't* right before.[/I]

    It's not that W2K is broken that makes M$ an asshole in all of this. It's that they have a patch available for those who have paid for extended support, but they won't release it for the general public.

    Since the cost to produce the patch has already been absorbed by M$, the only reason to withhold the patch is to make people frustrated with W2K to encourage them to upgrade. When you can readily fix something, but you don't, so that people will upgrade, well, then, your an asshole.

  6. Re:Hm... by breser · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And you're saying that in reply to an article about an unofficial fix for it?