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DST Fix For 10.0 - 10.3
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Anonymous Coward
on Wednesday March 07, @03:26AM (#116887)
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Weird. It still says here that 10.3.9 and earlier need the third party fix [unh.edu]. Maybe they just didn't think Apple was planning to release one.
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I'm one of the UNH Mac guys.... that patch was posted before Apple had one out for 10.3. We haven't gotten around to lowering the OS version numbers that should use it since Apple made their patch release. That change is being made sometime today.
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you guys planning a patch for OS 9.2?
(dont laugh a lot of schoolsystems still use it)
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I'm not laughing. I still have an old PowerMac G4 running 9.2 for Adobe Photoshop 6 with plugins that won't run in classic. Plus, some older software that I use infrequently.
Not that I need a patch, but for a school still running system 9... ouch - that's going to suck.
So it's sorta social, demented and sad, but social. Right?
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Anonymous Coward
on Wednesday March 07, @11:08AM (#116894)
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It may suck, but let's be realistic...this is only going to affect the time on your computer for a three week window this spring, and for a one week window this fall.
Besides that, if you turn off automatic time sync, you can set your time zone to whatever the correct time needs to be. Do this on your mission critical computer, but I doubt the lab full of bondi blue iMacs in Podunk Elementary needs to worry about the time being off by an hour.
And, if you are still using OS 9 six years after it was discontinued, surely you must be used to a few workaround by now to make up for your need to use antiquated technology.
A few years ago I worked for an outfit that had some PCs running IBM's OS/2. I wonder if IBM has issued a DST patch for OS/2???? ;)
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I don't think they did, because the time zone files are easily hand-editable as they're short and in a text format, and IBM don't support OS/2 any more.
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Yes, all Mac programmers gripe about it on their blogs [blogspot.com].
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Anonymous Coward
on Thursday March 08, @07:45AM (#116904)
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Yeah, I looked it up on the IBM site, out of curiosity, and I see they discontinued support for OS/2 in Dec. 2006. I am amazed they kept it on life support that long.
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Sorry, but no, we aren't.
Explanation:
A couple of years back, we decided to tighten up the scope of what Macs we could and would support, owing to the fact that there are only 3 guys supporting Macs at the University, and there are about 4000-6000 Macs on campus, including student boxes, that need support.
The basic rules for operating systems are that we support the current and previous OS versions, with a 6 months of continued support of the OS version that will roll off the bottom after a new OS is released. So when 10.5 is released, we will stop supporting 10.3, generally, 6 months later.
See the extended versions at UNH Supported Hardware List [unh.edu] and UNH Supported Software List [unh.edu].
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Who is going to release a patch for my Classic II running 7.5? :)
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by
Anonymous Coward
on Wednesday March 07, @01:38PM (#116896)
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Uhm, the patch is in a zip archive. IIRC, Finder zip support was introduced in 10.3 . Since this is intended for Jaguar and earlier wouldn't DMG be better a choice?
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