Re: DST and My Computers

["EdwardATeller" <sorry_no_email@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 11, 11:51 am, David White <whitedav...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> (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
>
> EdwardATellerwrote:
> > 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?

Too bad I didn't just wait for your reply.  Instead I found the same
solution with about three hours of work.  Hopefully it will help
someone else.