How to change multiple PCs from Indiana Eastern Zone to just Eastern

[RickD]

With Indiana about to go from Indiana Eastern to simple Eastern with
DST, what is the most efficient way to change the time zones on
multiple machines.

From research I see that GPOs do not handle time zones.

I do believe it can be done via a registry change but what is the best
way to push that out. Part of my problem is that typical users do not
have permissions to edit the registry due to policies.

I have a little under 200 PCs to consider.


Thanks,

 

[Kerry Brown]

With Indiana about to go from Indiana Eastern to simple Eastern with
DST, what is the most efficient way to change the time zones on
multiple machines.




I do believe it can be done via a registry change but what is the best
way to push that out. Part of my problem is that typical users do not
have permissions to edit the registry due to policies.

I have a little under 200 PCs to consider.


Thanks,

Answered in another newsgroup. The answer was found on Google

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=group+policy+time+zone&btnG=Google+Search

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/914837/

For future reference please do not multi post to several groups. If you must
post to more than one group cross posting works better.

 

[RickD]

Appreciate the help and the link.

In future reference, I always use Yahoo search or Google search...
obviously I did not find what I was looking for so I posted in the
appropriate groups. I do not know what cross posting but willing to
learn? As I am sure others could use the education.

Thanks again,

 

[Kerry Brown]

Appreciate the help and the link.

In future reference, I always use Yahoo search or Google search...
obviously I did not find what I was looking for so I posted in the
appropriate groups. I do not know what cross posting but willing to
learn? As I am sure others could use the education.

Thanks again,

Your welcome. Here's a link about cross posting vs multiposting.

http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/news-use.htm#XPMP

Again found with a Google search

http://www.google.com/search?q="cross+posting"+"multi+posting"&hl=en&lr=&start=0&sa=N

 

[Guest]

I have a startup script in a group policy that changes the timezone. My
current script is called changetz.cmd and contains two lines:

%SystemRoot%\system32\RunDLL32 shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL
%SystemRoot%\system32\TIMEDATE.cpl,,/Z Eastern Standard Time
%SystemRoot%\system32\RunDLL32 shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL
%SystemRoot%\system32\TIMEDATE.cpl,,/Z Eastern Standard Time

It seems to work reliably if the command is in the script twice, but not
work reliably if it is there only once, I'm unsure as to why this is.

 

[RickD]

After getting the hotfixes from Microsoft this is pretty close to our
finally resolution running this script via GPO as suggested in
Microsoft article above. Ben you idea also looks promising


@echo off
REM
##############################################################################
REM
REM
REM This script requires the use of OSVER.EXE from Bill Stewart at
REM http://www.cybermesa.com/~bstewart/wast.html
REM
REM
REM
##############################################################################


cls
echo Checking Windows version...
echo.
echo.

setlocal

for /f "tokens=*" %%i in ('\\fhlbi.com\bankdfs\apps\TZI\osver.exe') do
set windowsversion=%%i


echo This operating system is %windowsversion%.
echo.


if "%windowsversion%" == "Windows 2000" goto windows2000
if "%windowsversion%" == "Windows XP" goto windowsxp


:windows2000
start /wait \\xxxx.com\apps\TZI\Windows2000-KB916452-x86-ENU.exe /quiet
goto end

:windowsxp
start /wait \\xxxx.com\apps\TZI\WindowsXP-KB916452-x86-ENU.exe /quiet
goto end



:end

 

[RickD]

After getting the hotfixes from Microsoft this is pretty close to our
finally resolution running this script via GPO as suggested in
Microsoft article above. Ben you idea also looks promising


@echo off
REM
##############################################################################
REM
REM
REM This script requires the use of OSVER.EXE from Bill Stewart at
REM http://www.cybermesa.com/~bstewart/wast.html
REM
REM
REM
##############################################################################


cls
echo Checking Windows version...
echo.
echo.

setlocal

for /f "tokens=*" %%i in ('\\xxxx.com\apps\TZI\osver.exe') do set
windowsversion=%%i


echo This operating system is %windowsversion%.
echo.


if "%windowsversion%" == "Windows 2000" goto windows2000
if "%windowsversion%" == "Windows XP" goto windowsxp


:windows2000
start /wait \\xxxx.com\apps\TZI\Windows2000-KB916452-x86-ENU.exe /quiet
goto end

:windowsxp
start /wait \\xxxx.com\apps\TZI\WindowsXP-KB916452-x86-ENU.exe /quiet
goto end



:end