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27-11-2006, 02:09 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Sydney
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Apple Australia sure didn't take much effort to change the details from the US sale
Lets hope they update the discounts so we get more than the US discount amounts in AUD
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27-11-2006, 02:15 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Oatlands, Sydney, Australia, Earth, Milky Way, Virgo Supercluster
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Originally Posted by chrism238
Wow, a sale starting just after midnight of PST - Pacific Standard Time. What a very funny time for a sale to Australians.
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Oh, good point, well that's what it said! I didn't put it there!
I just learned something new, australia technicaly has 7 time zones!
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From http://www.timeanddate.com/library/a.../timezones/au/
NFT Norfolk (Island) Time UTC + 11:30 hours
EST Eastern Standard Time AEST UTC + 10 hours
EST Eastern Summer(Daylight) Time AEDT UTC + 11 hours
CST Central Standard Time ACST UTC + 9:30 hours
CST Central Summer(Daylight) Time ACDT UTC + 10:30 hours
WST Western Standard Time AWST UTC + 8 hours
CXT Christmas Island Time UTC + 7 hours
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Last edited by pixelperfect; 27-11-2006 at 02:17 PM.
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27-11-2006, 02:26 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Nedlands, WA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by pixelperfect
I just learned something new, australia technicaly has 7 time zones!
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Actually 1 more. WA starts a 3-year trial of daylight savings time from next Sunday. UTC+9.0 (good of our WA Government to give the world 11 days' notice - pity all those Microsoft users!)
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27-11-2006, 02:36 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Oatlands, Sydney, Australia, Earth, Milky Way, Virgo Supercluster
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Originally Posted by chrism238
pity all those Microsoft users!)
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why?
{message needs to be longer than 5 characters, so i am making it so} |
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27-11-2006, 04:02 PM
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Regular
Group: Regulars
Location: Nedlands, WA
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Originally Posted by pixelperfect
why?
{message needs to be longer than 5 characters, so i am making it so}
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Because there currently is no "Western Daylight Time" in existence, and Microsoft is making available new patches for XP and Vista for the changeover to work "seemlessly". However, some applications such as Exchange and Outlook (don't quote me on which ones) need their own patches because they use their own internal date/time formats. Users and system-admins at my university also confirm that MS will not be releasing a patch for Windows CE, so users of the same will need to just live in Japan (+0900) for the period. It doesn't sound as simple for MS users as it does for us with tzfiles and zic.
Oops, forgot the add the helpful link.
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Last edited by chrism238; 27-11-2006 at 04:18 PM.
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27-11-2006, 05:29 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Oatlands, Sydney, Australia, Earth, Milky Way, Virgo Supercluster
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Originally Posted by chrism238
Because there currently is no "Western Daylight Time" in existence, and Microsoft is making available new patches for XP and Vista for the changeover to work "seemlessly". However, some applications such as Exchange and Outlook (don't quote me on which ones) need their own patches because they use their own internal date/time formats. Users and system-admins at my university also confirm that MS will not be releasing a patch for Windows CE, so users of the same will need to just live in Japan (+0900) for the period. It doesn't sound as simple for MS users as it does for us with tzfiles and zic.
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27-11-2006, 05:35 PM
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Group: Regulars
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I think that works out to be 4 o'clock in the afternoon in Perth (where I"m at) - altough now we have just introduced daylight savings, so 3 o'clock on the 1st in WA. maybe??
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27-11-2006, 05:48 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Nedlands, WA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by pixelperfect
That solution simply smells of Microsoft - A Brown Smell.
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"Aren't you wearing Zune?"
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29-11-2006, 06:00 PM
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Member
Group: Regulars
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damn. i just bought a macbook online with edu discount..didnt see this promotion thing!
should i cancel and wait till friday to see what better discount i get?
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29-11-2006, 06:16 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Brisbane
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mojohojo
damn. i just bought a macbook online with edu discount..didnt see this promotion thing!
should i cancel and wait till friday to see what better discount i get?
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I doubt you will get a discount on the edu pricing only on the retail which will probably be less than what you get for the edu discount anyway.
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29-11-2006, 07:48 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Oatlands, Sydney, Australia, Earth, Milky Way, Virgo Supercluster
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Is Mac OS X going to be discounted?
I can get edu discount on it already for $129.
If it was discounted, would it be cheeper? or would both discounts apply?
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30-11-2006, 11:07 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Brisbane
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6 minutes past midnight Sydney time...still no Sale.
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30-11-2006, 11:19 PM
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Group: Regulars
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12:18 and still no sale. It DID say that the sale would start right after midnight I thought.  |
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30-11-2006, 11:22 PM
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Member
Group: Regulars
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Maybe it will start at midnight PST time. That would make it 7pm AEDT time.
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30-11-2006, 11:28 PM
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Beware the Robot Mafia
Group: Administrators
Location: St. Albans, Melbourne
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Come on Apple, where are the bargains?!
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