[geeks] Win2K and DST
Lionel Peterson
lionel4287 at verizon.net
Sun Mar 11 22:24:33 CDT 2007
>From: Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
>Date: 2007/03/11 Sun PM 09:17:58 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Win2K and DST
>Sun, 11 Mar 2007 @ 20:27 -0500, Lionel Peterson said:
>
>> >From: "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm at mendelson.com>
>> >Date: 2007/03/11 Sun PM 05:00:59 CDT
>> >To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>> >Subject: Re: [geeks] Win2K and DST
>>
>> >On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 04:56:36PM -0500, Phil Brutsche wrote:
>> >> It's a pain in the arse to use tzedit to fix the DST settings on 100+
>> >> machines ;)
>> >
>> >It depends upon how many junior sysadmins you have. :-)
>> >
>> >Windows shops seem to be teeming with them.
>>
>> To paraphrase an old saying:
>>
>> "An infinite number of monkeys, on an infinite number of Windows
>> servers can adjust tzedit..."
>
>Well, they wrote the OS in the first place, one would expect they could
>edit the timezone information too... :)
>
>I guess Balmer is the head monkey...
"Flying Monkey"
>I think his activities are mostly limited to flinging poo though.
>
>Why people want to sit up front at developer conferences I'll never
>know.
Think "Geek Gallagher", but with out the fun watermelon ending...
Lionel
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