Here's links to the registry update files for Win2kpro and WinXP:
http://www.mc3computerclub.org/TimeZone/win2kpro/tz_w2kp.reg
http://www.mc3computerclub.org/TimeZone/WinXP/TZUpdate_XP.reg
Right click on the proper links and select "Save Link as..." or "Save Target as...", depending on your browser. I suggest you save this
to your Desktop as it will be easy to find. Double click on it and Windows will
ask if you want to import the file into your computer's registry. Answer
yes and that's it.
These registry files will setup Daylight Saving Time for the Eastern,
Central, Mountain, and Pacific time zones and set your computer to
Central time with DST on. You can of course change your time zone after
importing these .reg files.
Why should I go to all this trouble, won't Microsoft just send out a patch
for us?
No, Microsoft is not putting out any timezone/DST patches for anyone anywhere
in the world. We have to remember the world does not revolve around the US
and in the scheme of things when you get down to the details of time
around the world, MS could end up with a full time staff tracking time
around the world. Did you know that there are three countries in the world
that use DST, but don't have set dates for the change over and each year
their federal governments pass legistration setting the dates for the next
year? Brazil is the largest of those three.
And what do you do for Australia? This last year, they hosted the British
Commonwealth games. They last for two weeks and the changeover date for Australian
DST fell in the middle of the games. The Autralian government decided that it would
be too confusing to change time in the middle of the games, so they pushed the
date for the change date back one week, just for last year.
So, in the end, Microsoft's approach is 'here's the tools to change it
with(but you have buy our Resource Kit for that version of Windows to
get them) and if you want to pass this to more than one computer, here's
the registry keys to export and then import on the others'(which is what
these links point to).
If you need to know about how to get Novell and Linux up to date, contact me at
support@lcrcomputer.com for more information.
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