1 post tagged “daylight savings time”

In case you haven't heard, some time back, our Congress passed a bill making Daylight Savings Time a few weeks earlier. Of course, in the tech world, everybody LOSES THEIR MIND because everything seems to automatically update for DST. There is a patch for Windows XP, which, isn't a big deal, it only fixes the clock. I could do that myself.

However, the reason I needed to go to Microsoft for their patch is my copy of Office 2007. I used Office 2007 religiously. I use Outlook, not for the shotty e-mail app, but instead, the calender. (I use Mozilla Thunderbird for e-mail, if Outlook's calender saved all appointments in a single format, it would be possible to import them to a open-source application, but there isn't, so I'm stuck).

Outlook supposedly will be DEVASTATED when this new DST hits. Apparently, it is so screwy, that it will shift all appointments in some kind of odd fashion.

So, I go to Microsoft.com. Click the link about daylight savings day. Pick my OS. It tells me to download an installer, then continue. (Even though I patch my Service Pack 2 machine every patch tuesday, its got an installer for me).

I start the installer. The Firefox Download Manager says it'll take 10 minutes (I have a 1.5 Mb/s connection). I assume its a big file. I do other "important" stuff, and come back, still only at 6%. I look at the file size, its ONLY 500 KILOBITES!

So, I suppose, that every single other Windows XP Home SP2 user is also updating their machine for DST right now, so I'll have to wait for this tiny 500kb file. Hmmm, stupid DST.