My new Treo 700wx needed the patch for the new Daylight Saving Time disaster. After going through 3 different patches (all of which claimed to be the official Microsoft patch), I finally stumbled on one that worked. Thread after thread on the blogs and boards spoke of the horrors of devices moving one or two hours ahead and appointments being missed after patching.
Now that the original DST date is approaching, or is already here, it will be interesting to see if anyone who has applied the patch experiences more trouble. If Microsoft isn’t embarrassed by this whole fiasco, nothing will embarrass them. Something which should have been a simple fix, that should have been widely published, was neither. So share your stories; in particular post if a new problem arises in the next few weeks.
Jerry Raia is a full time Airline Captain when he is not playing with all the latest gadgets he can get his hands on. He is also a Certified Flight Instructor (CFI-AIM). His primary interests are with Smartphones and more recently, Photography. He was a Unix programmer in the 1980s and wrote assembly for HP proprietary handhelds like the HP71B.
His interest in handheld devices led to being a beta tester for Windows CE (Pegasus), the first incarnation of the Windows Mobile operating system. He is also a Contributing Editor on Smartphone Thoughts. Jerry’s interest in handheld computing goes all the way back to the HP25 calculator that came out in the mid 1970s and was one of the first programmable calculators.
