LoadWB wrote:
I don't know about Microsoft, because as well as a patch for purchase they also provided registry entries for Windows 2000. Sun, however, wanted an existing service contract or the purchase of one for $10k per machine to provide a patch for anything older than Solaris 8.
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Fortunately, the base of most Unix DST rules is freeware, and it was a simple matter of compiling and testing. Wham! Solaris 7 now StupidUSA-DST compliant.
That's sort of the point, isn't it?
If you're too clueless to write your own zonefile,
then Sun gets to hose you. Windows, on the other hand, doesn't exactly document that part of the Registry for normal users, so everyone still running '9x has to go dig up the hack or documentation thereof from some random third party.
The question is why you haven't standardized on UTC for a production machine. Is it because it's a MX?
