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| Thread ID: 82693 | 2007-09-05 00:09:00 | daylight savings patches | robsonde (120) | Press F1 |
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| 588005 | 2007-09-08 22:17:00 | I have just manualy updated my registry (Win 98se) for daylight saving by following the instructions at: www.microsoft.com Daylight start is shown as: 00,00,09,00,00,00,05,00,02,00,00,00,00,00,00,00 and it worked great (ie the clock jumped forward one hour) Standard start is shown as: 00,00,04,00,00,00,01,00,03,00,00,00,00,00,00,00 but this did not work (ie the clock did not fall back one hour) I had to modify it as follows to get it working properly. 00,00,04,00,00,00,01,00,02,00,00,00,00,00,00,00 Any one else experience this problem? zoob I recomend that you use my reg hack. Original host: www.theanswerguy.co.nz/nzdt_update.zip to testing any timezone patches in any OS you should set you system clock to Sunday morning 31th sept, set time to 1:50am and then wait for 10 minutes. setting you clock to 2am can have unexpected results, in most OSes it will result in the time not changing or jumping to a somewhat random time, in some cases i have seen a kernel panic. |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 588006 | 2007-09-09 03:09:00 | The Microsoft page suggests testing that old settings no longer work as well as testing that the new ones do. No need to wait for 10 minutes each test though. Set your clock to 1:59:58 am and watch it tick over. 1. Change the date/clock to September 30, 2007, 1:59am and verify that the clock advances one hour (instead of moving to 2am it moves to 3am). This is the new (2007) DST start date. 2. Change the date/clock to October 7, 2007 at 1:59am and verify that the clock does not adjust for DST (Simply moves to 2am). This is the old 2007 DST start date. 3. Change the date/clock to March 16, 2008 at 1:59am and verify that the clock does not adjust for DST (Simply moves to 2am). This is the old 2008 DST end date. 4. Change the date/clock to April 6, 2008 at 2:59am and verify that the clock goes back one hour to 2:00am (instead of 3am). This is the new (2008) DST end date. Mine seems to work ok. |
Zoober (12586) | ||
| 588007 | 2007-09-10 22:25:00 | I believe an OS X update 10.4.11 will have the changes. Probably they forgot about 10.3. I have no idea what is happening with apps like Entourage etc. Fact: If your on old version of apples software they couldn't care less about you. |
JSF_enthusiast (8536) | ||
| 588008 | 2007-09-14 12:03:00 | In the link posted by Zoober - =http://www.microsoft.com/nz/msdn/timezone/manual.mspx for those using Tzedit.exe (which works well) one of the instructions is wrong. Line 7h should read - In the fourth Last Day box, click 2:00 AM The original shows 3.00AM but this is incorrect! This is probably the same basic problem that Zoober encountered. Apparently the M$ people thought that NZ daylight saving ended at 3am. Incidently, the version of Tzedit.exe currently available as a free download from M$ begets another file called Tzedit.exe (don't you love that filename duplication?) which doesn't work with Win 98SE - use the one on the 98SE CD in the Tools\Reskit\Config folder. Robsonde - do you realy mean Sunday September 31st? |
Robin S_ (86) | ||
| 588009 | 2007-09-15 07:15:00 | Robsonde - do you realy mean Sunday September 31st? yep 31st |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 588010 | 2007-09-15 12:27:00 | yep 31st Intriguing! Please explain. Should this be done in addition to the 4 date/time combinations from the M$ site as posted by Zoober? If not, should similar corrections be made to those combinations? |
Robin S_ (86) | ||
| 588011 | 2007-09-16 07:16:00 | yep 31st sorry, yesterday was a long day.... there is no 31st this month :-) sunday is the 30th and 2am is the time of daylight savings. I dont expect you to create a extra day just because i said it should be so...... |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 588012 | 2007-09-22 10:55:00 | Correction! Correction! In my post of 14/9 I said that the M$ instruction to set the end time for DST as 3am was wrong - it isn't. My understanding was always that DST ended at 2am and when I saw those instructions I thought they were wrong. Before doing anything else, however, I wanted to check it out and did a NZ search and found a webpage somewhere (can't remember where) that "confirmed" 2am. When I later came across this thread I posted accordingly, especially in light of Zoober's post about having to change a 3 to a 2 in the Registry settings from M$. Last Monday I rang Microsoft NZ and pointed out their "error", but when I checked out their web page this morning they hadn't made any changes. I have just done another NZ search and found this page - [URL="www.bdm.govt.nz which says the ending time is 3am. This must be right because it is from the Guvmint. Hence my post gave incorrect information. Sorry 'bout that. What does surprise me is that no one picked me up on it. (Creeps off to hide). |
Robin S_ (86) | ||
| 588013 | 2007-09-22 20:48:00 | or you can get a reg hack I made up: Mirror #1: mirror.erayd.net Mirror #2: www.imagef1.net.nz Original host: www.theanswerguy.co.nz/nzdt_update.zip Rob, with your reg hack work for WinXP ? From your post, I am not sure if your reg hack applies to this statement: "this is all fine but what about if you dont run XP or vista." I ask because I do not have SP2 (and will not install it). I went to the Windows Update page but the options for updates did not include DST changes. |
Morpheus1 (186) | ||
| 588014 | 2007-09-22 21:39:00 | I dont think so, since MS have issued a DST update for XP. You could try it, you'll soon find out if it installs without SP2 (even tho it says you need it). Here (www.microsoft.com) Or just change whats in the registry to whats here (support.microsoft.com) |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
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