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Daily Savings Time on OSX
Posted by rod@drury.net.nz in Apple at 7:16 pm on Wednesday, 19 September 2007

BruceH just flicked me a note on Daily Savings Time in New Zealand. This will affect most New Zealand Mac users.

As you’ll know New Zealand is doing daylight savings a few
weeks sooner than usual, on Sep 30th. Apple hasn’t yet updated OSX to
handle the new date despite knowing about it since the beginning of the
year. Friends of mine have submitted bug reports to Apple and had
them closed as duplicates of the first one, right back at the
beginning of the year.

The developer previews of Leopard (OSX 10.5) are correct, and so are
the developer previews of the OSX 10.4.11 update (three so far, the
first on July 30th), but everyone running 10.4.10 or older (which is
everyone who isn’t in the developer program) will not get NZDT on the
30th as they should.

Maybe Apple will release 10.4.11 before the end of the month, but
unless it’s REAL soon people with once-weekly automatic updates won’t
get it in time.

Our local group of Mac developers here in Wellington have got together
the necessary information and made a program people can download and
run to get the right settings.

http://mactcp.org.nz/nzdt.html

Thanks Bruce.

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Comments(2)

    Comment by mac user at 6:11 pm on 30 September 2007

    … and WHERE were Renaissance, the people representing Apple in this part of the work?

    In a word, NOWHERE.




    Comment by Ben Kepes at 7:36 pm on 30 September 2007

    Renaissance are only one apple reseller in NZ now so no more liable than any of the other resellers to sort the issue out