Unofficial Daylight Saving Time Fix for Panther

[kelly]

I may wait and see if Apple makes one.  

http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2007/1/28/6785

http://www.stanford.edu/~icomfort/panthertz/

[Gregg]

With "only" 22 devices that must be changed manually, I don't need another one that must be, that's for sure!

[kbeartx]

Unless you're on dial-up [gag!], just set Date and Time to update automagically [from a web server].

End of prob.

[kelly]

Not so. Not that simple. Why do you think they Patched Tiger?

Daylight Saving Time May Bite the Out-of-Date

http://db.tidbits.com/article/8832

[Gregg]

At the risk of injuring our own kbeartx....

I'm still on dial-up.

(It's free. If I switch to DSL or cable, I'd be paying for it.)

[kbeartx]

QUOTE(Gregg @ Jan 30 2007, 12:06 PM) [snapback]117435[/snapback]

I'm still on dial-up.

I think I knew that [on a subconscious level].  And you run OS 9.  Isn't that why you use a dinosaur as an avatar?

Having been on broadband for many years, IMO it is unthinkable to 'go back' to dialup.

Free is good, in general.  But I am happy to send money to TimeWarner or SBC for always-on, blazingly fast connectivity.

It's all about one's priorities.  I drive a fifteen-year-old car, use a five-year-old G4,  and have fast internet.

QUOTE(kelly @ Jan 30 2007, 11:35 AM) [snapback]117433[/snapback]

Not so. Not that simple.

I stand [sit, actually] corrected.

I read the linked article, but I still don't undertstand why getting the time from a web server won't work properly.

[kbeartx]

After receiving a PM from XABD, I now unnerstan!

Ink-ace I wuzz knot alone:

The data that is 'broadcast' from online Time Servers is merely GMT, and the client [each individual computer] is responsible for performing the calculations necessary to offset this value based on time zone [physical location on the planet] and whether DST is in effect or not [based on the time of year].

Since the calendar dates for the start and end of DST were changed since the software [Panther, etc.] shipped, revisions to the code are necessary to have accurate times displayed.

[Gregg]

QUOTE(kbeartx @ Jan 30 2007, 08:22 PM) [snapback]117478[/snapback]

I think I knew that [on a subconscious level].  And you run OS 9.  Isn't that why you use a dinosaur as an avatar?

I switched to the dinosaur after bailing Petra out in her fossile [sic] thread. It then became fitting for other reasons, as you note....

[Xairbusdriver]

Frankly, I never gave this problem much thought until this thread. It never occurred to me that the dates of these changes were 'up-for-grabs' and actually could be quite different all over the world. Another 'American-biased' 'world' citizen? One would think that Apple would have made this correction in any of its latest updates.

Maybe His Steveness needs to use iCal to remind him of things like this!

[Texas Mac Man]

I haven't downloaded & installed the "patch", but here's a comment from another Mac user.

Very nice of Ian, but at present the patch is causing the Macs it's tested on to Spring back and Fall forward, instead of the inverse (which would be correct). I just tested it myself and saw the same thing. Hope he'll get it turned around.