You could always move to Japan - no DST there!

Acutally, non-North American windows users do need to patch their systems otherwise if they use any applications that calculate time differential between their local time zone and a NA time zone, it will be off by 1 hour for 2 weeks now, and 1 week come November. (Think Group Calendering in Exchange/Office)

mini y2k is right
 

Bunch of crap going on. And now - Oracle just rolled out a patch for their AS. Nice of them - especially when we were first told it was not necessary....

its been a living hell brothas....

not to hijack the thread, but no DST here in Taiwan, either :D

Acutally, non-North American windows users do need to patch their systems otherwise if they use any applications that calculate time differential between their local time zone and a NA time zone, it will be off by 1 hour for 2 weeks now, and 1 week come November. (Think Group Calendering in Exchange/Office)

By the way, Java needs to be patched :(

You know what runs Java? Blackberry. Guess who has 225 Blackberry's deployed?

:(

A pain, but manageable so far. The BES server patch was this past weekend, caused some problems.

Worst thing is it is all for naught. We only did it in Canada to remain synched with our largest trading partner. Thanks guys.

It seems like every single one of my customers have been pinging me about this. I've gotten about 70+ calls from my customers worldwide asking if my product will need modification or patches. It's caused some major pain for me to.. I could only imagine for you guys.

very much a mini y2k and as head of our global networks i've heard more than once "america's forcing another dumb mistake down our throats."