[geeks] DST hell

[Mike Hebel]

On Mar 10, 2007, at 11:52 AM, Joshua Boyd wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 10:00:39AM -0600, Mike Hebel wrote:
>
>> If we're dealing with Win-blows boxes you would:
>>
>> 1) Patch the PDC for DST.
>> 2) Use ntp to set it's local clock.
>> 3) Turn off DST on the desktops.
>> 4) Use "net time" in the login scripts to set the local time to the
>> PDC.  (0)
>>
>> Mike Hebel
>> (0) You _are_ making sure your users logout every night right?  Unless
>> of course you've got third-shift people that is.
>
> Seems poor form to require that your users always logout at night.

A lot of Windows desktops need to be rebooted regularly anyway and if 
you're forced to use Backup Exec like I currently am it won't backup 
Outlook .pst files if the app is open.  Thus nobody's mail is 
safeguarded.

Mike Hebel
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