DST changes

mikester · 02:54 PM

doink!

Tim Walsh · Tim Walsh's Garage

DST isn't a bad thing.. until you have to patch every OS, Database and application in our environment which is about 150 machines and each machine has a different set of patches. (we have a very heterogeneous environment). Oh and it doesn't help when our monitoring program didn't have a DST patch but still broke anyway. Supposedly it pulls the time from the system.. but it didn't. I've probably got 60 hours into DST and have many more to go before everything's right.

So much for energy savings!

Z-man · Z-man's Garage

Amazingly, the sky didn't fall with they moved DST back a few weeks. All of our servers here at work, as well as the mainframe systems, unix systems, laptops, PC's...etc. continued to happily buzz along regardless of what time it was.

I guess the DST change was an excuse for the Y2K doom-sayers to come out of the woodwork again.

-Z-man.

Neilk · 03-12-2007, 06:04 AM

Our server moved ahead two hours instead of one hour. Looks like someone screwed up. Oddly enough half our users have access to network drives and half don't.

oldE · 03-12-2007, 06:10 AM

My wife, being a teacher, always feels the effects in the classroom (grade 6) at the time shifts. For the whole week after the time change, they are more easily distracted and prone to disturbance. She hates the changes in both directions. Since her March break started this weekend, she is in hopes the kids will have had some time to adjust before they're back to school on the 19th. I hope so too. If momma ain't happy, ain't nobody happy!

Les

Z-man · Z-man's Garage

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Originally posted by Neilk
Our server moved ahead two hours instead of one hour. Looks like someone screwed up. Oddly enough half our users have access to network drives and half don't.

Yeah, we had a couple of servers / machines do the same -- no biggie -- the world didn't end, the antichrist didn't rise to power, and life goes on. Biggest issue - the Lotus Notes calendar function may be off a little...

-Z

Neilk · 03-12-2007, 06:21 AM

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Originally posted by Z-man
Yeah, we had a couple of servers / machines do the same -- no biggie -- the world didn't end, the antichrist didn't rise to power, and life goes on. Biggest issue - the Lotus Notes calendar function may be off a little...

-Z

Any tips I can pass on? Unfortunately, our users need access to those shared drives.

azasadny · azasadny's Garage

Time changes suck for me because I'm an insomniac and any change to my sleep schedule throws me off...

wludavid · wludavid's Garage

I think it's weird to have the "spring forward" weekend while it's still technically winter. Having an equinox with the hours offset seems sacrilege to the pagan in me.

I do, however LOVE the long evenings. I don't wake up early in any case, so I don't really care when the sun rises.

cashflyer · 03-12-2007, 06:44 AM

My Win2000 server did not advance automatically.

Nobody lost network connections, and I really don't care what time the server thinks it is anyway.

Non event for me.

notfarnow · 03-12-2007, 06:44 AM

All systems "go" here, with some mild funkiness in shared email folders.

Mind you, it threw our dogs off kilter. One of them wouldn't wake up to go for his morning pee, so we rebooted him.

island911 · 03-12-2007, 07:14 AM

My iPod Nano did not advance automatically. POS Apple products!

red-beard · red-beard's Garage

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Originally posted by notfarnow
Mind you, it threw our dogs off kilter. One of them wouldn't wake up to go for his morning pee, so we rebooted him.

Sounds messy

Burnin' oil · 03-12-2007, 09:58 AM

DST sucks. I am early to bed, early to rise, so now its pitch dark when I get up and still light when I am ready for bed.

notfarnow · 03-12-2007, 10:24 AM

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Originally posted by red-beard
Sounds messy

Everything's fine as long as he makes it outside in time.

Z-man · Z-man's Garage

Quote:

Originally posted by Neilk
Any tips I can pass on? Unfortunately, our users need access to those shared drives.

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Originally posted by Kurt M over on Rennlist
We use Lotus Notes, I think it was a lot easier to patch than Exchange / Outlook. The only problem we had was with recurring meetings that were originally created in Notes 5.

The way I understood the microsoft patches you had to:
1. Update DST on the server's OS
2. Update DST on the Client's OS
3. Update everyone's mailbox.
4. Update Exchange on the server.
5. Update Outlook.
In that order, or it wouldn't work properly. Maybe I'm wrong since I didn't have to go through the process myself.

Hope that helps,
-Z