It is announced, a new DST standard and Lotus capability
Tags :DST
Due to the number of issues and mishaps with patching operating systems, Domino servers, Blackberry servers and devices and other random calendaring questions, I have decided to first issue a new DST standard and then tell you about the new Lotus feature.
1 - Central Standard Time (CST) and any other area that has to embark on all these changes will now commence using IST (IBM Standard Time) which requires Microsoft to tell you what time your calendar appointments and all other information will take place. No matter what time the view might happen to show in your calendar view, when you open the entry it will be an hour in some random direction. If you so happen to then synchronize these entries with a Blackberry, you will be so far off in arrival you are destined to pay fees for missing appointments at your doctor and dentist office. IST will require you to run countless patches and scripts on your servers and some Java device that makes you drink more coffee since even if you upgrade you servers to the recent version and then run the JTZU, it will still show files not properly updated. Furthermore, IST is only observed on every 2rd Sunday of the 4th month of the 3rd quarter on oddly dated even years. IST will require a 487 MB download for the Passport Advantage or Partnerworld site which will be down for IST patching until Apr 1 2007.
2 - Lotus now announces a new part of the Lotus Domino product line (Andy P had a huge hand in this), the Approximate Freetime lookup. Instead of knowing exactly when a room, co-worker or Sametime on-line meeting will be available, you receive a range of time depending on if they updated their local PC at home, their Blackberry device or have switched to marking stripes on the wall with kindergarten sidewalk chalk. You are now welcome to casually stroll into meeting rooms at any given time and claim ownership of the room for that time. The person with the fastest pocket calendar shall win and the other group will get the room approximately when you are done. In case of a draw, there shall be 3 rounds of rock-paper-scissors with the winner taking control of the room. This new product will be available for download with the new Lotus software project named "Almost, Close, Estimate"
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On Friday, February 16th, 2007 by Chris Miller
