daylight savings time not updating!!!!

[jeff]

Hi there, I am using vista ultimate.....this morning daylight savings
time did not update on my computer, the clock is off! vista reports
"daylight savings time for this zone is april 1st.......etc etc",
excuse me?!??! april 1st??? NO, it is now, lol..........funny enough,
when I try Canada---eastern time zone, that gives the correct
information, I am in newfoundland, canada.........did microsoft think
to incorporate our change?!?! LOL........I have also found out that
other people here have the same problem!!!!

thanks, any input?

Jeff

 

[john]

Hi there, I am using vista ultimate.....this morning daylight savings
time did not update on my computer, the clock is off! vista reports
"daylight savings time for this zone is april 1st.......etc etc",
excuse me?!??! april 1st??? NO, it is now, lol..........funny enough,
when I try Canada---eastern time zone, that gives the correct
information, I am in newfoundland, canada.........did microsoft think
to incorporate our change?!?! LOL........I have also found out that
other people here have the same problem!!!!

thanks, any input?

Jeff

the DST2007 patch they issued for XP worked this morning, but the same DST
patch issued for PocketPC's (Windows Mobile) did not

 

[Frankster]

Vista is reported, by MS, to have the new DST values incorporated. My Vista
machine updated correctly, no problem.

-Frank

 

[jeff]

Vista is reported, by MS, to have the new DST values incorporated. My Vista
machine updated correctly, no problem.

-Frank








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yes that is true, it is SUPPOSED to have ALL the dst values, but
according to many people here in our province, the same thing is
happening to them as well, like I said, vista is reporting for our
time zone that dst is on april 1st but of course, we know thats wrong,
it looks like the programming was not done right for our zone, its
just not picking it up for some reason?!?!? oh my, wonder if I can use
the xp patch?!?

 

[Frankster]

yes that is true, it is SUPPOSED to have ALL the dst values, but
according to many people here in our province, the same thing is
happening to them as well, like I said, vista is reporting for our
time zone that dst is on april 1st but of course, we know thats wrong,
it looks like the programming was not done right for our zone, its
just not picking it up for some reason?!?!? oh my, wonder if I can use
the xp patch?!?

Yes, after looking at the number of places in the world that do not use DST,
and the number of places that do use it but decided to stay with the
original dates, it is complicated. I can believe that MS got one (or more
wrong). Additionally, I can believe that some locals were very late in
reporting their intentions to adopt or bypass the new times.

Anyway... there is a way that virtually anyone can set this manually. And it
is pretty easy.

Download TZEDIT.EXE from MS. You can run it and it will allow you to
manually set the new values using a very good GUI.

Get it from MS, here...

http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/8/a/58a208b7-7dc7-4bc7-8357-28e29cdac52f/tzedit.exe

It's pretty slick. You can also use this tool on any system already upgraded
to confirm the new values are in place.

-Frank

 

[jeff]

Yes, after looking at the number of places in the world that do not use DST,
and the number of places that do use it but decided to stay with the
original dates, it is complicated. I can believe that MS got one (or more
wrong). Additionally, I can believe that some locals were very late in
reporting their intentions to adopt or bypass the new times.

Anyway... there is a way that virtually anyone can set this manually. And it
is pretty easy.

Download TZEDIT.EXE from MS. You can run it and it will allow you to
manually set the new values using a very good GUI.

Get it from MS, here...

http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/8/a/58a208b7-7dc7-4bc7-8357-...

It's pretty slick. You can also use this tool on any system already upgraded
to confirm the new values are in place.

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omg, thanks!!!! that worked, i had to go in and change the values,
looks like they were old like i thought!!! weird, imagine the number
of people who might have to do that, ouch, but thanks!!!!!!

 

[Daze N. Knights]

Thanks so much for passing along that link!

Yes, after looking at the number of places in the world that do not use
DST, and the number of places that do use it but decided to stay with
the original dates, it is complicated. I can believe that MS got one (or
more wrong). Additionally, I can believe that some locals were very late
in reporting their intentions to adopt or bypass the new times.

Anyway... there is a way that virtually anyone can set this manually.
And it is pretty easy.

Download TZEDIT.EXE from MS. You can run it and it will allow you to
manually set the new values using a very good GUI.

Get it from MS, here...

http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/8/a/58a208b7-7dc7-4bc7-8357-28e29cdac52f/tzedit.exe


It's pretty slick. You can also use this tool on any system already
upgraded to confirm the new values are in place.

-Frank

 

[Guest]

Hi All:
In anticipation of the problems with re-activating Vista due to
daylight savings time changes, hundreds of thousands of people have just
moved to Arizona where there is no daylight savings time! (A true case of
"out of the frying pan and into the fire!")

xiowan..........in tucson

 

[DoubleDAZ]

Just thought I'd mention that I keep 2 additional clocks (Eastern & Central)
on the Sidebar and they both updated correctly.

Cheers, Dave

Hi All:
In anticipation of the problems with re-activating Vista due to
daylight savings time changes, hundreds of thousands of people have just
moved to Arizona where there is no daylight savings time! (A true case of
"out of the frying pan and into the fire!")

xiowan..........in tucson

 

[Guest]

Same here...WinXP PCs here (Central time zone, US and Canada) updated for DST
correctly.

Vista booted showing a time one hour *later* than DST!! I went in and did
an Internet time synchronziation, which corrected the time. What the heck??

 

[Frankster]

Do you dual boot? If so, this can happen.

-Frank

 

[Guest]

No, I have one case with two hard drives, one with WinXP and the other with
Vista; when in XP, I disable the Vista drive in the BIOS, and vice-versa.

 

[Frankster]

The point is that each OS will update to DST ONE TIME. If you boot into a
different OS, it will update (causing a double update of +2 hours). To fix
this simply set the time back (assuming you are set to the correct Time Zone
and your Time Zone offset is set correctly).

In any event, you can download the MS Tzedit utility to check to see how
much offset your time zone is configured for here...

http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/8/a/58a208b7-7dc7-4bc7-8357-28e29cdac52f/tzedit.exe

-Frank

 

[Hugh Wyn Griffith]

Windows writes the revised time back to the CMOS clock on the
motherboard so the second OS sees an already updated time, even though
the other OS is not visible.

Internet Time Synchronization option ON should correct this but how
quickly I don't know.

 

[Hugh Wyn Griffith]

I see on the SANS website some indications of problems with the DST
upadte and with TZ ......

http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=2435

 

[Guest]

Yes, that's what I finally realized was going on--each OS moved the BIOS
clock forward one hour. I did the Internet Time Synchronization right away
(instead of waiting for the next scheduled update) and that brought the clock
back to the correct hour.

Thanks,
HRS

 

[Guest]

(See my post to Hugh below). Thanks for your observations. Simply doing an
Internet Time Sychronization was sufficient to bring the clock back to the
correct hour.--HRS

 

[Hugh Wyn Griffith]

Glad to know that the Internet Synch turned it back to the correct
time.

I think I'll wait until after the old date just to see if MS did fix
things correctly <g>

 

[tolanbp]

Any word on when Microsoft would grace us with their presence and
actually fix this DST error for Newfoundland?

After all I think a WEEK should be sufficient time to do a relatively
simple patch in what is supposed to be their flagship product.

 

[Dave]

this may help....
http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/8/a/58a208b7-7dc7-4bc7-8357-28e29cdac52f/tzedit.exe