Apple's DST solution 'very poor', say local users
Daylight saving time started yesterday, but while Microsoft was out informing customers and distributing patches, Apple simply recommended customers manually put their clocks forward an hour.
Daylight saving time started yesterday, but while Microsoft was out informing customers and distributing patches, Apple simply recommended customers manually put their clocks forward an hour.
New Zealand organisations appear to be taking daylight savings time (DST) changes in their stride, reporting they are not overly concerned about potential impacts on IT systems.
No, it’s not Y2K all over again, but the looming change to New Zealand’s daylight saving time (DST) will have profound implications for IT managers, Microsoft warns.
A leading local software firm is warning customers about the technology challenges arising from daylight saving time changes.
Proposals being entertained by government to lengthen the hours of daylight saving have met with a ho-hum reaction from the computer industry — in marked contrast to problems faced in the US recently and to the reaction to a similar local proposal in 2001.