OT: System Clock Loses Hour - Page 2

narf poit chez BOOM · #1 April 6th, 2007, 08:06 PM

Playdoh is for people who can't make modelling gunk themselves.

We've got a recipe.

Renegade 13 · #2 April 6th, 2007, 06:51 PM

I have that exact same problem on my computer as well...I just readjust the clock and then ignore it, since once the "normal" DST time comes around, it'll fix itself I'm sure

PvK · #3 April 6th, 2007, 10:24 PM

Sounds like the DST patch doesn't work... sigh.

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Atrocities · #4 April 7th, 2007, 08:42 AM

there is a problem and microsoft does NOTHING to fix it.

Baron Munchausen · #5 April 7th, 2007, 01:36 PM

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Atrocities said:
there is a problem and microsoft does NOTHING to fix it.

Actually, there is a problem because Microsoft tried to fix something. This is typical. The 'fix' for the animated cursor attack is known to break some software packages. They released it anyway because they were under a lot of pressure to 'do something' about this security hole. They are probably frantically scurrying around in their bureaucracy right now, trying to figure out how to fix the DST thing properly.

Fyron · #6 April 7th, 2007, 02:50 PM

Geeze.. you guys will take any opportunity you can to bash MS. It's not appropriate in threads where people are genuinely trying to get help; take it elsewhere.

Baron Munchausen · #7 April 7th, 2007, 03:48 PM

We are just noticing that there is no help to be had -- not entirely off topic.

douglas · #8 April 14th, 2007, 11:58 AM

Your reference frame. To do meaningful calculations in any situation where relativity has a significant impact you will at some point simply have to arbitrarily define what is at rest. You can choose absolutely anything you want, it will all work out correctly regardless, but you have to pick something.

Possum · #9 April 14th, 2007, 08:20 PM

Hehehe, read this and had to chuckle.

Yes, it's the change in daylight savings time, but that's not why I'm snickering.

I'm snickering because 98SE doesn't have this problem at all. I set time to PDT manually on the new day. On the usual day, I fired up my bawx, and 98SE politely said, "Hey, boss, it's time to set the clock ahead. You want me to do that?"

I replied "no", and that was the end of it

Why, why, why are more sophisticated mechanisms, (and there can be no doubt that XP is far more advanced and sophisticated than 98SE), always more subject to quirky little problems like this?

Possum · #10 April 14th, 2007, 08:40 PM

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douglas said:
Your reference frame. To do meaningful calculations in any situation where relativity has a significant impact you will at some point simply have to arbitrarily define what is at rest. You can choose absolutely anything you want, it will all work out correctly regardless, but you have to pick something.

Somewhere, the shade of Herr Doktor Werner Karl Heisenberg is laughing heartily