● 04.06.10

●● Microsoft Windows = Daylight Savings Shutdown

Posted in Australia, Servers, Windows at 5:11 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Summary: Australian shops are unable to process payments because the whole system runs Windows and there is a daylight savings shutdown

David Williams says that “NAB [National Australia Bank] has daylight savings shutdown”. According to his report, “the entire NAB systems – card transactions, Internet and telephone banking – were down.  The reason the operator gave was that they were down deliberately “for daylight savings.””

According to this older report, “National Australia Bank is overhauling its network of 1600 ATMs to run on Windows XP and use IP networks.” They also use Windows on the desktop and the server.

We previously wrote about Microsoft’s daylight savings errors in this post. It’s a known problem and Microsoft is unable to cope with DST properly. █

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