[Dxbase] USA Daylight Savings time change this weekend

[Ron Stordahl]

What Bob successfully did is described here: What Bob did is well 
described here:  http://www.uic.edu/depts/accc/systems/daylight/windows.html

So there are several options....

Ron, N5IN

Bob Main wrote:
> Actually the other operating systems aren't that bad.  Microsoft has a
> program that you run on the computer.  It bring up the time zone you are
> presently set to.  You click on "Edit" and the begin change to Second Sunday
> in March and ending is changed to First Sunday in November.  After you do
> that you close the program and go to the Control Panel double click "Date
> and Time" change to any different time zone, select Apply, then change back
> to correct Time Zone and you're done.  Not really a big deal.  I had to do
> it on 6 NT servers and took about a minute a piece.  The best part, no
> reboot was required.
>
> Bob 
> KB4CL
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dxbase-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:dxbase-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
> On Behalf Of Ron Stordahl
> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 4:11 PM
> To: Joseph Glockner
> Cc: DXBase Reflector
> Subject: Re: [Dxbase] USA Daylight Savings time change this weekend
>
> Joseph Glockner wrote:
>   
>> [non-USA subscribers don't have to read this]
>> Daylight Savings Time begins 2 a.m. local time on March 11 this year.
>> Read more about it here:
>>     http://www.energy.ca.gov/daylightsaving.html
>> Make sure your PC operating system is up-to-date:
>>     http://support.microsoft.com/dst2007
>>
>> 73 Joe wa6axe
>>
>>     
> You can test if your system is updated for this by going to: 
> http://www.it.ubc.ca/news/dstchanges2007/sysadmininfo/testdst.html
>
> The Microsoft updates, assuming you are doing them, resolve the DST 
> issue  for XP SP2, Server2003 and Vista, but earlier OS's are more 
> difficult to update.  But there is a program that you can run on W2K 
> (and a different one for W98/ME) you can read about here:
>
> http://www.intelliadmin.com/blog/2007/01/unofficial-windows-2000-daylight.ht
> ml
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> They have a patch also for W98/ME.
>
> I have run the updates from Intelliadmin on a W2K machine and a Win98 
> machine and they appear to have worked.  After running the updater you 
> have to click on the time (lower right hand corner) and go to the time 
> zone section and click on OK to get it to take effect.  At least that is 
> what it seemed to require on Win98.
>
> Do this at your own risk!
>
> Ron N5IN
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