Re: DST woes - you won't believe this one

Hah... that's a good one.  I will no longer complain about any of IBM's DST
fix support... that M$ story takes the cake!

                                                                       
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This is just too ... well, it just is.

1. User is running Win2KPro on a laptop.
2. Automated updates don't work for some reason.
3. Network admin forced critical updates earlier this week to deal with
Y2Klock.
4. User lost all personal settings, including connection to network
printer.

So, the network admin has been trying to fry other fish this week, and
every morning I have been resetting the time on about 2/3 of all the
Win-based servers and PCs acting as servers. Today I finally got a chance
to look at the above user's laptop.

5. Got the printer connected.
6. Verified that (for the moment) the time was correct to within a second
or two.
7. Attempted a manual Windows Update using the Microsoft Web site.
8. Got an error. The message was:

   -----------------------------
   You cannot download this file
   because your date and time
   are not properly synched ...
   -----------------------------

"Sorry, you can't go in the Emergency Room because you are bleeding too
profusely."

Darrell

Darrell A. Martin  -  630-754-2141
Manager, Computer Operations
dmartin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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