Re: DST and My Computers

[David White <whitedavidp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

(a) Download the timezone editor for Win98 from here
(http://www.softshape.com/cham/manual/tzedit.htm). It is a
self-extracting zip-executable. I would just extract the files into the
Windows directory and leave them there.

(b) Run tzedit.exe. It should pop-up showing our timezone (GMT - 8)
selected. If not, select it. Then press the edit button. Set the start
day to be Second Sunday of March at 2am. Set the last day to First
Sunday of November at 2am. Press OK, then close the Time Zone editor.

(c) Very important - you are not done yet. Right click the start bar
clock and choose adjust (or Date/Time from the control panel). Choose
another timezone (say Arizona) and press ok/apply. Then choose back our
real time zone (GMT - 8). This causes the info changed by step (b) to be
read.

You are done. This is a summary of the manual procedure shown at MS
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/914387/).

David

EdwardATeller wrote:
> Sorry if this has been covered already, but I am looking for a way to
> deal with this DST issue.  I thought I'd be able to simply synchronize
> my computer clock with the NIST time servers after the switch over and
> all would be well.  Today I found out that won't work.  Only one of my
> 5 computers has an OS that can be patched, so I am left with 4 Windows
> OS's that will need manual adjustments unless I can figure something
> out.
>
> Syncing to GMT on the internet, and then running a variable offset
> that is triggered by the calendar would work nicely.  I suppose I
> could write a perl script that does this, and then use task scheduler
> to run it once a day. Maybe I could sync to the patched computer on my
> network and not have to worry about the extra offset and calendar
> logic.  Is there a way to remotely sense an XP SP2 computer's system
> time?
>