The “DST 2007” fallout isn’t quite as bad as I originally feared, but I’m not completely out of the woods. For instance, there are all of those Outlook recurring appointments to help people straighten out. The stunner, though, is that for some reason certain copies of Windows XP selected the wrong Pacific time zone when they received the DST update patch. What used to be “GMT-08:00 Pacific Time (US & Canada); Tijuana” is now “GMT-08:00 Pacific Time (US & Canada)” and “GMT-08:00 Tijuana, Baja California”.

Spiffy. Guess who gets to figure out how to find and squash this particular dilemma? Sure, it’s not a difficult problem to fix on an individual machine, but try scripting the fix across hundreds of client machines in a variety of environments without breaking something else in the process. My efforts aren’t helped by a (possible) bug in our managed services platform which is preventing me from checking the value of a Windows registry string.

Of course, thanks to the DST change itself, I’m handling all of this after getting up at what felt like four-thirty in the morning. I’ve had worse Mondays, I suppose…