From: "Glenn Meadows" 

And if the US congress decides later this year or next, that it's made a
mistake, or decides to adjust it yet again, we'll go thru this all again.

To me, the better way to solve this, would have been to put in a user
settable colander, that you set when DST starts and ends.

My goofy mail program has just that option, so it's all user configurable
no matter where you are, what country you're in, or what local over rides
might happen (Indianapolis doesn't switch to DST right in the middle of
Indiana. Nor does Arizona I believe.

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Glenn M.
"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in
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> "mike"  wrote in message
> news:86t7v2t4jura75k1ldns6mnuq17pea721v{at}4ax.com...
>>>> I still cannot understand why MS Outlook needs to be
patched?  Or other
>>>> MS applications.  Shouldn't MS Outlook (and other
applications) be able
>>>> to obtain daylight savings info from the underlying OS? 
It's not like
>>>> MS Outlook was written by some obscure software vendor that knows
>>>> nothing about the intermingling of apps and system software....
>>>
>>>Darn good question.
>>
>>
>> I see now we are hearing that Outlook does not need to be
"patched", it
>> needs to be "updated".   I also see that all the
affected Microsoft
>> products need to be "updated" not "patched".
>
> Well it is a change that no one, not even Microsoft, could know
> beforehand, so I think "update" is fair. To me,
"patching" implies an
> error in the software which in this case it is not.
>
>
> Antti Kurenniemi
>
>

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