What a fucking PITA this is going to be:

Post by **Tossica** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 4:09 pm

http://support.microsoft.com/gp/dst_topissues#A5

Post by **Lyion** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 4:41 pm

I've been prepping for this on my Oracle Servers for the last 45 days. The Government should never be allowed to change our calendar.

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 4:44 pm

yay for living in a place where they realize DST changes nothing, so don't follow DST!

Post by **Tossica** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 4:49 pm

We have thousands of workstations and hundreds of servers that will be affected.

ClakarEQ · Post by **ClakarEQ** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 3:23 pm

You don't have something like wsus in place? You guys run login scripts?

Our biggest issues have been because of shitty java. Only java build 1.5.0_9 or greater (if I got my rev correct) supports the DST change. Java does not look to the OS for time, but maintains it through other ways.

Java has admin requirements to install, our user base does not have this, we do have some saving grace in that we've got SMS to "help" but it will still be a nightmare to manage it all.

Post by **Tossica** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 3:26 pm

We do support for 100's of businesses. Some will be much easier to manage than others.

Post by **Tossica** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 2:33 pm

Wow. What a clusterfuck.

Zanchief · Post by **Zanchief** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 2:56 pm

DST should be abolished.

Post by **Tossica** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 3:06 pm

PITA or not, business is going to be really good for the next month or so.