[JohnSheppard]

Also, in Software Update:

Apple offers Java, daylight savings updates

Apple today updated the way Mac OS X handles Daylight Saving Time for Tiger (and DST for Mac OS X 10.3 Panther) and updated Java for Mac OS X 10.4 (and Java for Mac OS X 10.3 Panther) to add support for those same changes. The Daylight Saving Time update reflects changes in several countries and regions that will alter the dates on which they observe Daylight Saving Time, while the Java for Mac OS X 10.4 Release 5 adds support for the latest Daylight Saving Time changes and time zone information. The Java update also provides improved reliability and compatibility for Java 2 Platform Standard Edition 5.0 and Java 1.4 on Mac OS X 10.4.8 and later. The release updates J2SE 5.0 to version 1.5.0_07 and Java 1.4 to version 1.4.2_12, improving reliability of the SWT_AWT bridge implementation first released in the SWT Compatibility Libraries for Release 4. The improvement is installed as a standard part of J2SE 5.0, according to Apple.

[JohnSheppard]

Apple ping

[Echo Talon]

so many bugz, so little fixes...

[TommyDale]

But we've all been told that Apple has no need for fixes.

[Swordmaker]

Mac Update PING!

Security

Java

Daylight Savings Time change

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[Ramius]

For all you Mac users out there... don't worry about this. Security vulnerabilities only happen on PC's. No need to update.

[zeugma]

I wish they'd taken the time to rework how daylight savings is handled. There is no reason whatsoever that I can find for this to be more than just an updated text file that contains the start/stop dates of daylight savings time for applicable locales.

Most Unix systems actually run the system clock as GMT,  with the time you are displayed being an offset from GMT based on an environment variable or a localization configuration file. This is why you can have Alice in San Diego and Bob in Dallas, and Charlie in Orlando login to the same system, and each have their local time displayed to them (providing, of course they have their TZ environment variable set, as should be the case if you have folks from across the country, or world logging into one system.

Why not just have the start/stop date and offset in a file so folks wouln't have to worry as much the next time the idiots in Washington decide they know better than God does about what time the sun should rise and set. Sometimes the arrogance of the criminals that populate that city astounds me. To protect ourselves from future declarations against nature, we should make it as easy as possible to deal with their lunacy.