Monday, January 22, 2007
CAB File Available To Update Your Device For DST Changes
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "SOFTWARE" @ 12:00 PM
http://www.edgeblog.net/2007/daylight-saving-time-windows-mobile-fix/
"...the Daylight Saving Time change for 2007 is going to cause problems for unpatched technologies. Most vendors, including Microsoft, have released patches. One big area that is lacking is Windows Mobile smartphones & PDAs. Microsoft release a registry fix and instructed the carriers to push out a patch. Most of the carriers, in their infinite wisdom, have neglected to do so. If you rely on your Windows smartphone, you need this fix. Microsoft published the registry fix here. This fix requires you to build a CAB file and then install it. To save you the trouble, I have bundled the CAB file for you."
Thanks to Bill for making this easy. Personally, I hope the carriers and Microsoft get a ton of flak from this incident when, in a few weeks, most people's devices get the wrong time on them. I know if I were a average consumer that didn't keep up with their technology like the readers of this site do, and my phone got an hour off, I'd remember that the next time I purchased a phone, and wouldn't look for the "Windows Mobile" logo. Who knows, maybe the carriers will push this fix out in the coming weeks. :idontthinkso:
"...the Daylight Saving Time change for 2007 is going to cause problems for unpatched technologies. Most vendors, including Microsoft, have released patches. One big area that is lacking is Windows Mobile smartphones & PDAs. Microsoft release a registry fix and instructed the carriers to push out a patch. Most of the carriers, in their infinite wisdom, have neglected to do so. If you rely on your Windows smartphone, you need this fix. Microsoft published the registry fix here. This fix requires you to build a CAB file and then install it. To save you the trouble, I have bundled the CAB file for you."
Thanks to Bill for making this easy. Personally, I hope the carriers and Microsoft get a ton of flak from this incident when, in a few weeks, most people's devices get the wrong time on them. I know if I were a average consumer that didn't keep up with their technology like the readers of this site do, and my phone got an hour off, I'd remember that the next time I purchased a phone, and wouldn't look for the "Windows Mobile" logo. Who knows, maybe the carriers will push this fix out in the coming weeks. :idontthinkso:
