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- Subject: Re: [MLUG] The DST bug - worse than Y2K?
- From: "Jonathan King" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
- Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 23:21:17 -0500
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On 3/9/07, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Jerry Gamblin wrote:
> On 3/9/07, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
>
>> I hear that Solaris was selling a patch for this for thousands of
>> dollars. My IT people have done nothing for me. They are going around
>> talking to secretaries and patching their old NT boxes (as if that
>> would matter). So here I am, one day before the event and I don't know
>> how to fix this.
>
> It looks like the patch is only $400
>
> http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/techtips/solaris_dst_addendum.jsp
Thanks for the info -- but isn't there any way to "fix" this temporarily
using a crontab? Or can't I at least make changes by hand? My long-term
goal is to dump Solaris altogether. I paid $450 for an Sun Ultra 2 300
MHz w/ 1 GB RAM and I'm not going to pay $400 for one patch! Sun is just
crazy if they think I will.
> It beats the heck out of the $4000 some W2K users had to pay for a
> supported patch:
>
> http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,129550-c,industrynews/article.html
Particularly since that patch blows rocks, and leaves Outlook
calendars for different users applying that ptach in inconsistent
states. Among other issues. There will be a lot of gnashing of teeth
next week at many government sites near you, although you did not hear
that from me...
And the article says that price is down from the $40,000 they were going
to charge for it. Of course that's the price for all computers in an
organization, but you have to apply the patch yourself -- they don't fly
in a team of techs to do it for you!
No, they don't. It sounds trivial, but it really isn't. Incredibly
enough, this change in the timing of DST will cost billions overall.
What a freaking mess! Oh yeah: did I mention that you didn't hear it
from me?
jking
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