Time Zone Update -- NEW AND IMPROVED!!

They're now EXE files (self-executing WinZip.)

I would DEARLY love to have someone(s) proof these before I start
advertising beyond his group. Especially the web pages and the Readme.txt.
Gotta be in the next couple of days, though.

Start he http://grystmill.com

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Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User

Thanks for the background, Peter! I gotta think its even more "interesting"
than your short synopsis, w! Wonder what Sandi Hardmeier (brash IE MVP
from Perth), would have to say about it. Lots, I bet!

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Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User

"budgie" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 23:45:44 -0800, "Gary S. Terhune"
wrote:

They're now EXE files (self-executing WinZip.)

I would DEARLY love to have someone(s) proof these before I start
advertising beyond his group. Especially the web pages and the Readme.txt.
Gotta be in the next couple of days, though.

Start he http://grystmill.com

Gary, I don't have the opportunity to seriously evaluate the .exe, but a
couple
of comments on the situation here in (Western) Australia.

1. We have state-by-state decisions on daylight robbery\\\\\\\\\saving.
It is
not an Australian govco jurisdiction. For example, Queensland has never
had
DLS.

2. The WA legislation did introduce a three year trial based on the
current
govco ignoring three previous referenda which had said a resounding "NO".
A
subsequent poll with high response gave about 75% NO already, and there is
a
push to have the final say brought forward to later this year (i.e. a
one-summer
trial).

3. (trivia) The govco has been running a series of TV ads imploring
people not
to all turn on their airconditioning (etc) whent hey get home from work,
as the
peak load has caught them with their planning pants down. Why? Well, the
workforce is now getting home an hour earlier (in sun terms) and therefore
they
are *going_to* turn on the home aircon. Any half-thinking politician
should
have seen that coming as one immediate side-effect of a last-minute
decision to
trial DLS.

Hope your work pays dividends for other legacy OS users.

Peter (98SE)

On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 23:45:44 -0800, "Gary S. Terhune"
wrote:

They're now EXE files (self-executing WinZip.)

I would DEARLY love to have someone(s) proof these before I start
advertising beyond his group. Especially the web pages and the Readme.txt.
Gotta be in the next couple of days, though.

Start he http://grystmill.com

Gary, I don't have the opportunity to seriously evaluate the .exe, but a couple
of comments on the situation here in (Western) Australia.

1. We have state-by-state decisions on daylight robbery\\\\\\\\\saving. It is
not an Australian govco jurisdiction. For example, Queensland has never had
DLS.

2. The WA legislation did introduce a three year trial based on the current
govco ignoring three previous referenda which had said a resounding "NO". A
subsequent poll with high response gave about 75% NO already, and there is a
push to have the final say brought forward to later this year (i.e. a one-summer
trial).

3. (trivia) The govco has been running a series of TV ads imploring people not
to all turn on their airconditioning (etc) whent hey get home from work, as the
peak load has caught them with their planning pants down. Why? Well, the
workforce is now getting home an hour earlier (in sun terms) and therefore they
are *going_to* turn on the home aircon. Any half-thinking politician should
have seen that coming as one immediate side-effect of a last-minute decision to
trial DLS.

Hope your work pays dividends for other legacy OS users.

Peter (98SE)

Check your inbox.

--

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Conflicts start where information lacks.
http://basconotw.mvps.org/

Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375



"Gary S. Terhune" wrote in message
...
They're now EXE files (self-executing WinZip.)

I would DEARLY love to have someone(s) proof these before I start advertising
beyond his group. Especially the web pages and the Readme.txt. Gotta be in the next
couple of days, though.

Start he http://grystmill.com

--

Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User

Gary, what kin of input are you looking for. I an the EXE on Win98SE all
went well so far as I can tell. IT would be nice to have the DOS window
close automatically, and of course not have 'file not found' messages
(perhaps NUL them out) but, once again, all looks well.

REG backup is in G:\WINDOWS where it should be. I reset timezone as in
your documentation, set time via internet (no anomalies) so what else
would you like to know?

Vic

BTW: thanks for the patch!
Also have Win95C if you would like the EXE checked there too
___
"Gary S. Terhune" wrote in message
...
They're now EXE files (self-executing WinZip.)

I would DEARLY love to have someone(s) proof these before I start
advertising beyond his group. Especially the web pages and the
Readme.txt.
Gotta be in the next couple of days, though.

Start he http://grystmill.com

--

Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User

On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 21:56:28 +0800, budgie put finger
to keyboard and composed:

Gary, I don't have the opportunity to seriously evaluate the .exe, but a couple
of comments on the situation here in (Western) Australia.

1. We have state-by-state decisions on daylight robbery\\\\\\\\\saving. It is
not an Australian govco jurisdiction. For example, Queensland has never had
DLS.

2. The WA legislation did introduce a three year trial based on the current
govco ignoring three previous referenda which had said a resounding "NO". A
subsequent poll with high response gave about 75% NO already, and there is a
push to have the final say brought forward to later this year (i.e. a one-summer
trial).

3. (trivia) The govco has been running a series of TV ads imploring people not
to all turn on their airconditioning (etc) whent hey get home from work, as the
peak load has caught them with their planning pants down. Why? Well, the
workforce is now getting home an hour earlier (in sun terms) and therefore they
are *going_to* turn on the home aircon. Any half-thinking politician should
have seen that coming as one immediate side-effect of a last-minute decision to
trial DLS.

Hope your work pays dividends for other legacy OS users.

Peter (98SE)

IMO, if daylight saving is to be implemented at all, then it should be
applied during winter when we need more sun.

- Franc Zabkar
--
Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.

That's much too logical for government work, Franc!

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP -- Shell/User
http://grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm
http://grystmill.com/articles/security.htm

"Franc Zabkar" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 21:56:28 +0800, budgie put finger
to keyboard and composed:

Gary, I don't have the opportunity to seriously evaluate the .exe, but a
couple
of comments on the situation here in (Western) Australia.

1. We have state-by-state decisions on daylight robbery\\\\\\\\\saving.
It is
not an Australian govco jurisdiction. For example, Queensland has never
had
DLS.

2. The WA legislation did introduce a three year trial based on the
current
govco ignoring three previous referenda which had said a resounding "NO".
A
subsequent poll with high response gave about 75% NO already, and there
is a
push to have the final say brought forward to later this year (i.e. a
one-summer
trial).

3. (trivia) The govco has been running a series of TV ads imploring
people not
to all turn on their airconditioning (etc) whent hey get home from work,
as the
peak load has caught them with their planning pants down. Why? Well,
the
workforce is now getting home an hour earlier (in sun terms) and
therefore they
are *going_to* turn on the home aircon. Any half-thinking politician
should
have seen that coming as one immediate side-effect of a last-minute
decision to
trial DLS.

Hope your work pays dividends for other legacy OS users.

Peter (98SE)

IMO, if daylight saving is to be implemented at all, then it should be
applied during winter when we need more sun.

- Franc Zabkar
--
Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.

I was more looking for proofing of the written content, Vic, but also
feedback from testing. On all the systems I tested on, Win98SE, Win2K and
even WinXP, the command windows closed automatically. If it's not doing it
for you, I'll have to add back a couple of commands I thought were
superfluous. I'll let you know when they're updated, and if you'd like to
email me at gryst_at_grystmill.com, I'll be sure to notify you directly.

Any system you can test it on for me would be great. I'm handicapped by not
being at my own machine(s) lately, borrowing a very slow XP machine. VPC
runs like snail snot, and I haven't had the time to install 95 or ME, nor
yet found my copies of NT4.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP -- Shell/User
http://grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm
http://grystmill.com/articles/security.htm

"Vic" wrote in message
...
Gary, what kin of input are you looking for. I an the EXE on Win98SE all
went well so far as I can tell. IT would be nice to have the DOS window
close automatically, and of course not have 'file not found' messages
(perhaps NUL them out) but, once again, all looks well.

REG backup is in G:\WINDOWS where it should be. I reset timezone as in
your documentation, set time via internet (no anomalies) so what else
would you like to know?

Vic

BTW: thanks for the patch!
Also have Win95C if you would like the EXE checked there too
___
"Gary S. Terhune" wrote in message
...
They're now EXE files (self-executing WinZip.)

I would DEARLY love to have someone(s) proof these before I start
advertising beyond his group. Especially the web pages and the
Readme.txt.
Gotta be in the next couple of days, though.

Start he http://grystmill.com

--

Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User

Brian, Did you do it all or should I run the web check stuff again?

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"Brian A." gonefish'n@afarawaylake wrote in message
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| Check your inbox.
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| Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Shell/User }
| Conflicts start where information lacks.
| http://basconotw.mvps.org/
|
| Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
| How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375
|
|
|
| "Gary S. Terhune" wrote in message
| ...
| They're now EXE files (self-executing WinZip.)
|
| I would DEARLY love to have someone(s) proof these before I start
advertising
| beyond his group. Especially the web pages and the Readme.txt. Gotta be
in the next
| couple of days, though.
|
| Start he http://grystmill.com
|
| --
|
| Gary S. Terhune
| MS-MVP Shell/User
|
|
|
|

It stayed open for me as well on first run and I had to kill it. I ran it a few
more times and it closed as it should, only on the first run did it not close. BTW,
that was on 98SE loaded in VPC 2007, I haven't made it to the other 98SE on my
network yet, when I do I'll let you know how it went.

--

Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Shell/User }
Conflicts start where information lacks.
http://basconotw.mvps.org/

Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375



"Gary S. Terhune" wrote in message
...
I was more looking for proofing of the written content, Vic, but also
feedback from testing. On all the systems I tested on, Win98SE, Win2K and
even WinXP, the command windows closed automatically. If it's not doing it
for you, I'll have to add back a couple of commands I thought were
superfluous. I'll let you know when they're updated, and if you'd like to
email me at gryst_at_grystmill.com, I'll be sure to notify you directly.

Any system you can test it on for me would be great. I'm handicapped by not
being at my own machine(s) lately, borrowing a very slow XP machine. VPC
runs like snail snot, and I haven't had the time to install 95 or ME, nor
yet found my copies of NT4.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP -- Shell/User
http://grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm
http://grystmill.com/articles/security.htm

"Vic" wrote in message
...
Gary, what kin of input are you looking for. I an the EXE on Win98SE all
went well so far as I can tell. IT would be nice to have the DOS window
close automatically, and of course not have 'file not found' messages
(perhaps NUL them out) but, once again, all looks well.

REG backup is in G:\WINDOWS where it should be. I reset timezone as in
your documentation, set time via internet (no anomalies) so what else
would you like to know?

Vic

BTW: thanks for the patch!
Also have Win95C if you would like the EXE checked there too
___
"Gary S. Terhune" wrote in message
...
They're now EXE files (self-executing WinZip.)

I would DEARLY love to have someone(s) proof these before I start
advertising beyond his group. Especially the web pages and the
Readme.txt.
Gotta be in the next couple of days, though.

Start he http://grystmill.com

--

Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User