29 May 2009 0 Comments

Announcement: A new DST hotfix is available for Morocco 2009 Daylight Saving Time for the Windows platform

As Lourdes posted here on the Daylight Saving Time and Time Zone blog, a new hotfix is available for Morocco 2009 Daylight Saving Time for the Windows platform. This is an update for the Daylight Saving Time for the "(GMT) Casablanca" time zone this year (2009) for computers running Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008… "Morocco has announced the start of DST for 2009 on June 1st at midnight. The clock will move one hour forward at midnight between May 31st and June 1st, and then move one hour back at midnight between August 20th and August 21st in 2009.  There was no DST for Morocco in 2009 prior to this update

27 May 2009 0 Comments

The whole truth about MB_PRECOMPOSED and MB_COMPOSITE

As a by the way, this blog does NOT represent anything beyond my own personal thoughts. You could even blame it on my Tegretol dosage, to be perfectly honest (if the pain were not so intense I’d have skipped this med for sure). I am not even on the team that owns this code any more and I didn’t own it when I was then