US and Canada Daylight Savings Solution
Tired of worrying about the 2007 US and Canada Daylight Saving problem for your unsupported Microsoft server and client operating systems? We have created a utility that we are calling DST2007 to handle the operating systems that Microsoft is refusing to support for the Daylight Saving 2007 change. In addition to getting all of your Windows machines up-to-date with all time zone changes worldwide, the DST2007 utility makes the required US and Canada DST 2007 changes called for by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to the following platforms:
- Windows NT 4.0 SP6
- Windows 2000 Professional - SP1 through SP4
- Windows 2000 Server - SP1 through SP4
- Windows Server 2003 - Gold and SP1
- Windows XP Professional and Home - Gold, SP1, and SP2
The utility makes the required configuration changes to all of the US and Canadian time zones affected by the daylight saving 2007 change: Newfoundland Standard, Atlantic Standard, Eastern, Central, Mountain, Pacific, and Alaskan Standard. It also includes all known time zone changes worldwide.
The DST2007 utility makes the appropriate changes to all affected timezones in the timezone database on each machine, not just the currently configured timezone. The primary reason why we did this is for traveling users. People floating around from timezone to timezone within North America or traveling from outside of North America to North America won't have to worry about daylight saving at all. The utility is intended to turn the whole DST 2007 problem into a non-issue from a Windows operating system perspective. Your sites, users, and customers outside of the US and Canada might want to consider deploying this change to their mobile users who travel to the US or Canada. Also, certain types of applications running outside of North America that talk to application components hosted on US- or Canada-based servers might also benefit from the DST2007 update.
Depending on your application environment, the consequences of not deploying this change can be rather severe. Consider the case of a financial services firm that has to have the daily stock trades transmitted by say 4:00PM Eastern Time (US). If those trades happen an hour late, then that firm might be held liable for any monetary losses for the late trades. Having the trades happen an hour early doesn't net out to a much better result either. Consider the possible legal ramifications for a hospital or nursing facility where their nurses are administering treatment or medicines one hour ahead or behind the time that is tracked in their computer systems. What about potential conflicts between the scheduled start times of patient surgeries and the actual availability of staff surgeons.
Be aware that DST2007 only makes the required changes to the base operating system only. You will still have to address your other affected applications such as MS Exchange, MS Outlook, Sun Java, IBM Java, Microsoft Java, IBM Lotus, and so forth based on guidance that you receive from those vendors.
The DST2007 utility is designed for use with a software deployment tool (e.g. Microsoft SMS, Tivoli, Zenworks, etc) with the client-side agent running as LocalSystem or some other suitably empowered security context such as local administrator. You could also Psexec it across your servers or clients if need be. Please be aware that this tool might not work if you choose to deploy the change through a login script if your users run under a restricted security context. The reason for this is that some of the required registry edits won't work as a standard user.
OK, How Do I Get Started?
Why buy from us?
- We are a lot cheaper than Microsoft (Microsoft charges $4000 USD for the same thing)
- We provide stunningly good world-class support
- We handle NT 4 and Windows 2000 (many vendors claim to support NT 4, but don't)
- We give you a single, easy-to-deploy EXE that handles everything required for the operating system patch
- We properly support non-English builds of Windows (same EXE as for English builds of Windows)
- We fully support adding the required Dynamic DST keys to the time zone database (so applications can correctly make historical date/time calculations)
- We will answer your support questions completely and promptly
- You get better value with us since we will also do our best to give you "quickstart" guidance on how to put the whole dayight saving 2007 problem behind you so that you can quickly move on to more productive work. For many customers, this advice alone from experts on the topic is worth the purchase price
- We know A LOT about how to quickly initiate, execute, and complete a successful daylight saving 2007 project
The price is: $500 (USD) for an enterprise license for organizations of any size. If for any reason you are not completely satisifed with the product and follow-on support, we will refund 100% of the purchase price.
Excerpts from recent customer status emails :
"Thank you so much for all of your responses...this has definitely been
$500 well spent! I have patched all clients and servers today in about
2 hours..."
"Yes! We deployed [the tool] successfully across our 180 nodes...
Thanks! If we ever have to go through this crap ever again, I'm calling you first. "
Please contact sales@sharpebusinesssolutions.com if interested in purchasing a license for use within your organization using a Purchase Order or Check. We will respond back with a formal quote.
You can also pay directly by using the button below and paying through 2CheckOut.com. 2CheckOut.com Inc. (Ohio, USA) is an authorized retailer for goods and services provided by Sharpe Business Solutions. If you choose to use this method, then we will send you your copy of DST2007 back via email attachment. If you cannot receive email attachments, then let us know and we will rush the tool out to you on CD.
If you are interested in purchasing rights to use the source code (Win32 command line tool written in C using Visual Studio 6) in your own product, or wish to use articles and/or marketing related to the availability this tool and/or source code to drive traffic to your web site, please email me with your proposal at sales@sharpebusinesssolutions.com. Please be aware that the majority of the business value surrounding this opportunity must/should be harvested prior to early March 2007.
Serious inquiries only please.
