Yes, and ... ?

Weren't you aware that Ben Franklin invented schoolchildren and the schoolbuggy?

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"I have a cunning plan that cannot fail."
S. Baldrick

Yes and then he invented Lightning to keep the two under control.

It is from Microsoft, so I don't know why your IT wouldn't already know about it unless Microsoft is only issuing it to some kinds of customers and not others, which would be odd. I don't work in IT so I don't know much detail. Here are some bits of the messages that have been sent to us all from IT about it, so you can see how they're using some names/terms associated with it:

Thanks Delvo. Once you gave me the thought, a quick google found all the MS stuff. I forwarded to our local IT people, who gave me this "duh, of course we knew about that, so don't worry yourself about it". Fine, last time I try to help you guys out. So if our Outlook is all messed up, hey, it ain't my fault, I didn't want to go to the stupid meetings anyway.

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Sounds more like a case of CYA in the IT department. They can't reliably say that they will have the issue resolved, and patched on all the computers, or be sure of deployment issues.

I would also be worried about your IT folks being sold some third party product that prevents this "major catastrophe" from happening on your system. I've seen too many products installed because of some salesman says there is a problem where none really exist.

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Numbers are not case sensitive. (me)

Our IT folks did something over the weekend. It resulted in all recurring meeting notices being resent. Including some which had already been cancelled. Several also came out as having been sent by someone other than the original sender. Ugh.

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I saw this headline talking about a 'mini Y2K' because of this, and now I find out it's because meetings scheduled in Microsofty Outlook might get moved an hour?

Hold, me, I'm havin' the palpitations!

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The Devil offered me power. I told him I preferred aperture.

Hey, you'll be fashionably early!

Our society is now concerned because Microslop Outhouse might be off by an hour? May I suggest a patch?

RING

"Hey, Harry, where are you?"

"Meeting doesn't start for an hour."

"DST klarned the Outlook. Gitcheer butt down here NOW."

CLICK

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I hear that already, but then the architect I work for is a Mac user.

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I'm not completely heartless, the doctor who removed it told me he'd never be able to get it all.

I've got a real technicalogically advanced patch that will eliminate the problem completely.

Here's the installation procedure:

When you create a meeting, put a message similar to this in the message portion of the invite:
"Meeting scheduled for xx:xx, in case your Outlook is having issues."
Done!

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Same here, even if Im not there in your country, Im affected because we have to adjust our con-calls meetings ,cancel the scheduled ones and revise the reservations to a different time.

And only today that our IT has released the information that they are going to fix the time.

Ready your devices for Daylight Saving

Even the opening paragraph is crap.
More daylight? (ok, nitpicky, but people really think that)

I will be spending time making sure the 95% of the clocks in my house are set anyway, so why should the few that are automatically set cost me so much time?

At least the article had some common devices and their appropriate risk assesment.

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In Canada everyones paychecks and banking got messed up because the banks and the goverment decide to change their computers all at the same time.

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If it's just us, it seems like an awful waste of space.
Contact Carl Sagan

So I turned the computer on early this morning to see if any of tne recent Windows Updates I downloaded had fixed the DST issue. Nope, it's still on standard time. So I decided to try manually synchronizing over the internet and I get:
You don't suppose their server is a bit busy this morning do you?

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Mine worked just fine.

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

I had to manually reset mine. No big deal, but in three weeks, I'll probably have to set it back.

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T. Anderson

I know of a couple of places (including mine) that have sent out announcements essentially saying, "All your meeting times are going to be off by an hour for the next three weeks. Deal."

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Everything I need to know I learned through Googling.

My atomic clock web time resource in Boulder CO tried to set me back one hour.

Manual is the way to go, now and in about three weeks or so.

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