28 February 07 - 16:32Screw you Palm
Palm has known about the DST changes for over a year (I'll ignore the bit about the fact that it wasn't until OS 5 that DST was actually implemented within the PalmOS); yet they released a patch for the matter less than three weeks before the change is to occur. Microsoft's patches were released in February as well, but this almost acceptable as Microsoft has an automatic update system in place (and has for over 5 years). Palm has no such system in place, and thus many people are going to miss this update, and likely have a bad surprise when they arrive late for something on the week of March 11th.
So reading the Palm support page about the DST update, I read the following:
It is always a good idea to make a backup of your important information. Prior to installing this update, Palm recommends backing up your Calendar events, or printing them out for reference, in the event that Calendar information is lost.
Umm, you have got to be kidding me. Sure, backups are a good thing. But quite simply, there should be no need to ever make a manual backup of Palm data. Even suggesting that one prints out their calendar as a backup is a joke. Considering that one of the core features of a Palm is the calender, one should never need to worry about it's correctness. I can see no reason for this update not to be simple for Palm.
To make matters worse, Palm didn't provide this as a simple patch that you install and are done with. They provide an app that is installed, and than once run it patches the OS. This of course means that if for whatever reason you need to restore your palm after a hard reset, you will need to reinstall this app and rerun the update manually. Sigh. I guess I shouldn't really be surprised as Palm has been fumbling and generally making worse the Palm platform for the past several years.
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