Comments on: Commonwealth Games patch http://www.geekrant.org/2006/02/01/commonwealth-games-patch/ Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:22:10 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Chris Brown http://www.geekrant.org/2006/02/01/commonwealth-games-patch/comment-page-1/#comment-5713 Chris Brown Tue, 28 Mar 2006 23:04:49 +0000 http://www.geekrant.org/2006/02/01/commonwealth-games-patch/#comment-5713 I believe Sydney did extend daylight savings. However worth noting that many companies had been resourced-up for dealing with the Y2K bug so dealing with the daylight savings extension in 2000 olympics would have been easier. The daylight savings shift for the 2006 Commonwealth Games is causing all sorts of havoc! I believe Sydney did extend daylight savings. However worth noting that many companies had been resourced-up for dealing with the Y2K bug so dealing with the daylight savings extension in 2000 olympics would have been easier. The daylight savings shift for the 2006 Commonwealth Games is causing all sorts of havoc!

]]> By: StyleyGeek http://www.geekrant.org/2006/02/01/commonwealth-games-patch/comment-page-1/#comment-5711 StyleyGeek Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:35:14 +0000 http://www.geekrant.org/2006/02/01/commonwealth-games-patch/#comment-5711 I've found the simplest solution is to manually set the timezone for my computer clock to New Caledonia for the rest of the week. At one of my part time jobs, however, I don't have administrator rights on my machine, and am hence not able to change the time (God knows what I might get up to if that was allowed!). The admin people sent out a company-wide email to tell everyone the computer clocks were screwed for the rest of the week and there's nothing they or anyone can do about it. Presumably they haven't even heard about the Microsoft patch. Or are refusing to use it. The whole thing is pissing me off. I’ve found the simplest solution is to manually set the timezone for my computer clock to New Caledonia for the rest of the week.

At one of my part time jobs, however, I don’t have administrator rights on my machine, and am hence not able to change the time (God knows what I might get up to if that was allowed!). The admin people sent out a company-wide email to tell everyone the computer clocks were screwed for the rest of the week and there’s nothing they or anyone can do about it.

Presumably they haven’t even heard about the Microsoft patch. Or are refusing to use it.

The whole thing is pissing me off.

]]> By: Nathan http://www.geekrant.org/2006/02/01/commonwealth-games-patch/comment-page-1/#comment-5709 Nathan Tue, 28 Mar 2006 00:01:11 +0000 http://www.geekrant.org/2006/02/01/commonwealth-games-patch/#comment-5709 Fucking Sport fanatics. Bomb the commonwealth games. Fucking Sport fanatics. Bomb the commonwealth games.

]]> By: Jaz http://www.geekrant.org/2006/02/01/commonwealth-games-patch/comment-page-1/#comment-5708 Jaz Mon, 27 Mar 2006 08:27:57 +0000 http://www.geekrant.org/2006/02/01/commonwealth-games-patch/#comment-5708 I agree that this was a disaster waiting to happen. We deployed the comm games patch to over 300 XP Domain clients in an MSI package via a group policy. While this seemed to push out and change the Timezone to comm games time, This morning ( the 27th March) All times rolled back an hour anyway and we had to reset the timezone in order for it to actually work. In addition All calendar appointments moved forward one hour after that and reaccurring appointments moved also. what a nightmare experience this has been. I am not looking forwards to the rollback. Bu what ever you do make sure you have all your users print off their calendars before you make any changes Jaz I agree that this was a disaster waiting to happen. We deployed the comm games patch to
over 300 XP Domain clients in an MSI package via a group policy. While this seemed to
push out and change the Timezone to comm games time, This morning ( the 27th March)
All times rolled back an hour anyway and we had to reset the timezone in order for it to actually work. In addition All calendar appointments moved forward one hour after that and reaccurring appointments moved also.
what a nightmare experience this has been. I am not looking forwards to the rollback.
Bu what ever you do make sure you have all your users print off their calendars before you make any changes

Jaz

]]> By: mgm http://www.geekrant.org/2006/02/01/commonwealth-games-patch/comment-page-1/#comment-5707 mgm Mon, 27 Mar 2006 07:13:04 +0000 http://www.geekrant.org/2006/02/01/commonwealth-games-patch/#comment-5707 > I think the best way for Microsoft to have dealt with it would have been through a seamless automatic windows update, rather than an obscure manually installed patch. A patch was released via Windows Update. > I think the best way for Microsoft to have dealt with it would have been through a seamless automatic windows update, rather than an obscure manually installed patch.

A patch was released via Windows Update.

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