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Old February 15th 07, 02:06 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,microsoft.public.win98.apps
tom
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Default Daylight Savings Patch

On Feb 14, 7:44 pm, "PCR" wrote:
MEB wrote:
| "tom" wrote in message

oups.com...
|| Anyone had experience with the patch from:
||
||http://www.mdgx.com/add.htm#TZU
||
|| That is:
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|| Q931836.exe
||
|| Thanks!
||
|| I have a number of 98 systems and I don't want to do them manually if
|| I
|| can avoid it.
||
|
| That happens to be an update to a TZ "fix" that was discussed in
| this forum via several threads.
| To combat, or rather address other potential aspects which may be
| related [or not] Gary Terhune MVP created [or is modifying/creating]
| a TZ file for all versions of Windows, with the various issues
| related to other areas of the world [if I remember correctly].
|
|http://www.grystmill.com/articles/tz_update.htm

Subsequently, Terhune agreed with John John in another thread that steps
(g) though (j) [below] would also have to be done after running his
.reg, but obviously not steps (a) through (h). Looks like the one
from...http://www.mdgx.com/add.htm#TZU
...does it's own (g) through (j), though. Terhune had an objection to
that one, though, for another reason.


Where are these conversations? I cannot find them when I search the
news groups.

I did find one where you pointed out that (g) though (j) should be
run, but no reply from Terhune.

I tested the grystmill patch without running steps (g) through (j) and
it worked. Tested on 98SE by moving the time forward and letting it
pass through 2 AM on March 11, 2007.

So, when does this (g) through (j) issue apply. I have already
applied the patch on a number of systems, I need to know if I should
do the (g) through (j) thing on all systems, some systems, or no
systems.


The following is required to do in the USA only...

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=914387
How to configure daylight saving time for the United States in 2007
......Quote.......
INTRODUCTION
Because of the Energy Policy Act, daylight saving time is extended by
four weeks in 2007. This change starts on the second Sunday of March and
ends on the first Sunday of November.
......EOQ.........

The time has come to follow the instructions in that article, or,
perhaps a bit more clear...

(a) Click TZEDIT.EXE.
It opens with your time zone selected.
(b) Click the Edit button.
(c) Change the Start Day to... Second, Sunday, March.
(d) Change the Last Day to... First, Sunday, November.
(e) Click the OK button.
(f) Click the Close button.
(g) Click Start, point to Settings, point to Control Panel,
and then double-click Date/Time.
(h) Click the Time Zone tab.
(i) Select a different time zone than (the one you are set at),
and then click Apply.
(j) Click (back to the one you were set at), and then click OK.

"Note Steps i and j are required for the new changes to take effect",
the article says, as does TZEdit's own help screen.

Do so before March 11, 2007. If you cannot get TZEdit.exe from your
personal copy of the Resource Kit, get it from the above article as
Candlin saw or from...ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/services/tec...Reskit/CONFIG/...,
as Laura Fredericks did discover, after likely 1/2 ton of clicking
(although she denies it).

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Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
Should things get worse after this,
PCR