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to: Geo.
from: Robert Comer
date: 2007-03-05 08:48:04
subject: Re: The DST fiasco

From: "Robert Comer" 

Because they can and some will pay it.

XP had a Windows Update patch, but all my other OS's I did myself, it's not
that hard...

--
Bob Comer





"Geo."  wrote in message news:45eb9252{at}w3.nls.net...
> If it's that simple to fix the problem, why is MS charging $4000 for a
> fix?
>
> Geo.
>
> "John Cuccia"  wrote in message
> news:n2gmu2lcjiqln10aa0ukfv5tugum8r8945{at}4ax.com...
>> On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 16:01:15 -0500, "Geo."
 wrote:
>>
>>>"Tim Boyer"  wrote in message
>>>news:e80mu2t12e1dlbgleockh60otapq1uis9g{at}4ax.com...
>>>
>>>>>So turn it into a cron job.
>>>
>>>> Sure, if they're networked in.  But what if they aren't?
>>>
>>>You go around to each machine and using your USB stick you load the cron
>>>job
>>>on each machine using it's cron.
>>>
>>>The problem with NT and W2K is that the time zone controls this so you
>>>have
>>>to actually change time zones instead of the clock, ie -400 or -500GMT
>>
>> Or import this registry update, or do any of the other things listed
>> in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/914387.
>>
>

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