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1. Comment - MS: $4,000 for Daylight Saving Fix

   (Mar 1, 2007 - 11:49 AM)

   I edited my comment to make it clearer.

2. Comment - MS: $4,000 for Daylight Saving Fix

   (Mar 1, 2007 - 11:16 AM)

   OK For those who don't want to read all the comments, I'll summarize what I have read.
   
   #1 Foxfyre is a complete idiot as he is telling everyone to simply start using NTP to sychronize your clock and you won't have a problem. This however will not work as NTP only syncronizes UTC and leaves it up to the local operating system to handle time zones.
   
   #2 Microsoft is charging for this patch howver you really do not need it. You can use the TZEDIT.EXE program on ANY Windows OS to modify the time zone settings and change when DST kicks in.
   
   #3 If you are in a corporate environment and use WSUS to update internally, the patch from Microsoft cannot be used on it as it's not "publicly" available. (this applies to the one you have to pay for now ones available via normal Windows Update)
   
   #4 Linux, OSX and just about every other operating system that Automatically adjusts the clock for DST. Updates to the time zone tables will be needed by some manual process or automatic patching.
   
   #5 Some applications also need patching but it's dependant upon the application. Best thing to do is check into anything that relies on correct time in some way.