[time-nuts] For my whole life timezones have been weird

[Edgardo Molina]

Dear Sarah,

Good morning. I just returned home from a long and difficult customer data center migration. I thought of sharing that I feel the same way as you do regarding your thread. Things should always behave like a Mac or Linux, in which if there is a glitch, the OS responsible party jumps into scene with a solution. Not the way it happens and builds your frustration with Windows.

Food for thought, just an example of someone supporting their OS user base on a similar topic. To err is human, to fix the errors should also be: http://support.apple.com/kb/TA24568?viewlocale=en_US

Cheers,



Edgardo Molina
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On Nov 2, 2012, at 11:32 PM, Sarah White <kuzetsa at gmail.com> wrote:

> So, at or around 1981 (the year I was born) there was a cool concept.
> IBM was selling "personal computers" (IBM-PC compatible later became a
> thing) and by the time I was old enough to operate a modem, I had one
> myself. Life was good.
> 
> Wonder if there is any sensible way to petition microsoft to fix this
> stupid mistake dating back to the DOS era. Windows 8 / metro is out now,
> and I can't bloody stand the changes. Would be nice if windows 7 had an
> update to fix this issue:
> 
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2687252
> 
> Article ID: 2687252 - Last Review: March 13, 2012 - Revision: 4.0
> 
> APPLIES TO
> Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
> Microsoft Windows XP Professional
> Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3
> Windows Vista Business
> Windows Vista Enterprise
> Windows Vista Home Premium
> Windows Vista Ultimate
> Windows Vista Service Pack 1
> Windows Vista Service Pack 2
> Windows 7 Enterprise
> Windows 7 Home Basic
> Windows 7 Home Premium
> Windows 7 Professional
> Windows 7 Ultimate
> Windows 7 Service Pack 1
> Windows Server 2008 Datacenter
> Windows Server 2008 Enterprise
> Windows Server 2008 Standard
> Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2
> Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter
> Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise
> Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard
> Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1
> Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2
> 
> ... Pretty sure that's 100% of all recent versions of windows. The whole
> thing started because windows 3.1 / 95 / 98 / 2000 / ME / etc. etc. etc.
> were all targeted with being backward compatible with the previous OS
> leading all the way back to DOS (first versions of DOS were coming out
> in 1981 the year I was born)
> 
> For where I live, this weekend is the "change your clocks" for the
> fall... or don't, or do something else... petition microsoft maybe?
> 
> I'd love for windows 7 to have a fix for this since I'm not upgrading to
> the horrible looking windows 8 --- windows 7 will be in extended support
> until 2020 (( reference: http://goo.gl/unxvj )) so I figure let's try to
> get them to fix it in the next few years. I'm serious about this.
> 
> Let's fix this timezone problem!!!
> 
> Pretty much every other operating system vendor out there (various POSIX
> platforms including more than one version of BSD, linux and even mac OSX
> since under the hood it is a POSIX based operating system) it is an
> option to leave the hardeware real-time-clock (bios clock) on UTC.
> 
> Ok that's all I'm typing on this.
> 
> Angry at several of my clocks today,
> Sarah White
> 
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