Friday, March 09, 2007
All Patched for Daylight Savings I Think
In the event you haven’t heard already, this Saturday night in the US we switch into Daylight Savings Time (DST), earlier than in the past. This law was passed last year to conserve energy, with the thinking that the more natural light you have, the less energy you consume. Of course our technically-challenged legislators did not take into consideration other costs, including software changes to ensure all is running after the change.
I have run Windows Update on all of my PCs and got the DST patches. Weeks ago I saw on MobileBurn.com that Palm issued a patch for my Treo 680 and patched it then. Interestingly I just got the email directly from Palm this past week – so much for their concern for their customers. And of course I am ready to run around the homestead to change all of the manual clocks.
Are you all patched and ready? I believe I am. Then there are the vendors and merchants that I do business with and only a handful have emailed me to tell me they are ready. A couple of vendors are in Arizona, the only state that does not abide by DST – lucky them.
As the time change is at 2 am on Sunday, the impact should be minimal to me, and I will have time to run tests. Hopefully Monday morning is not a challenge for your and businesses. And hopefully all airline software is in check, otherwise my friend will have a hard time flying back to Europe on Sunday night.
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Mike Maddaloni on 03/09 at 10:54 AM
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Well, let’s see: my desktop PC didn’t reset, even though it’s on auto-update. The client servers did reset, my Sprint cell phone reset, PDA didn’t reset (not surprising, since it’s never hooked up to the internet), and our TiVo didn’t automatically reset but it did warn me that I needed to call in and update it for DST.
Comment by
Dr. Pete
on 03/11/07 at 10:00 AM
(phew) I had no problems myself, only that I need to change all of the manual clocks around the office…
mp/m
Comment by
Mike Maddaloni
on 03/12/07 at 06:32 AM
I spoke too soon. The client’s server is updated and shows the right time, but the ColdFusion scheduler and email (running on the same server) are still an hour behind. Very strange…
Comment by
Dr. Pete
on 03/12/07 at 01:31 PM
D’OH! Good luck with that, and please post it here or somewhere for all to see!
mp/m
Comment by
Mike Maddaloni
on 03/12/07 at 02:15 PM
From my hosting company: “The JVM has its own daylight saving time settings, so it must also be updated.” Presumably it only affects ColdFusion MX (6 & 7). It wouldn’t have even occurred to me that the Java engine had it’s own clock settings; actually, that seems pretty stupid.
Comment by
Dr. Pete
on 03/12/07 at 02:35 PM
I hope that by the time I am typing this, they have already adjusted it?!
mp/m
Comment by
Mike Maddaloni
on 03/12/07 at 03:18 PM
You can do a test by sending yourself an email via a CFMAIL tag on the website. If the server was adjusted but not the JVM, the email will be timestamped incorrectly.
Comment by
Dr. Pete
on 03/12/07 at 03:20 PM
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