Indiana Time Zone changing

[Jeff Juarez]

I am one of the lucky people who live and work in NE Indiana. Our state has
chosen to move from EST (Eastern Standard Time, Or Indiana Time), to EDT
(Eastern Daylight time). Now comes the fun part; I have about 600
workstations that need to change time zones. Of course the clients don't
have the ability to change time zones, without being a local administrator
to their workstation. I did some very basic research and found which
registry keys to change to swap time zones. However, even if I put this
reg-hack into the login script, the clients would not be able to run it. I
am sure there are many ways to solve this problem, but I am looking for
suggestions.

Thanks.

Jeff J.

 

[MyndPhlyp]

I am one of the lucky people who live and work in NE Indiana. Our state has
chosen to move from EST (Eastern Standard Time, Or Indiana Time), to EDT
(Eastern Daylight time). Now comes the fun part; I have about 600
workstations that need to change time zones. Of course the clients don't
have the ability to change time zones, without being a local administrator
to their workstation. I did some very basic research and found which
registry keys to change to swap time zones. However, even if I put this
reg-hack into the login script, the clients would not be able to run it. I
am sure there are many ways to solve this problem, but I am looking for
suggestions.

Can you maybe fashion a script to run from a domain controller as God to
push the Registry entry into each of the 600 workstations? In theory, God
has the ability to make Registry changes.

Next year there's a different problem, just to make matters worse. Instead
of beginning on the first Sunday of April and ending on the last Sunday of
October it get changed in 2007 to beginning on the second Sunday in March
and ending on the first Sunday in November.

 

[Jay Somerset]

Can you maybe fashion a script to run from a domain controller as God to
push the Registry entry into each of the 600 workstations? In theory, God
has the ability to make Registry changes.

Next year there's a different problem, just to make matters worse. Instead
of beginning on the first Sunday of April and ending on the last Sunday of
October it get changed in 2007 to beginning on the second Sunday in March
and ending on the first Sunday in November.

I fully expect that Microsoft will issue a patch to change the ST/DT dates.
In fact, I believe their various contracts with the Federal Govt will
require them to do so.

 

[Jeff Juarez]

I was able to assign via a GPO a computer login script that silently
installed the reg file. This way the script does not run under the clients
credentials.

 

[MyndPhlyp]

I was able to assign via a GPO a computer login script that silently
installed the reg file. This way the script does not run under the clients
credentials.

That's kind of the direction I indicated (although not a client-side
execution). Glad to hear it worked out. Can't wait to see how far back MS
will fix the daylight savings time thing come 2007. I would hope at least
Win98 and NT4. I doubt Win95, NT3.51 or earlier. But this is an opportunity
to help obsolete pre-XP platforms so anything is possible.

 

[Jay Somerset]

That's kind of the direction I indicated (although not a client-side
execution). Glad to hear it worked out. Can't wait to see how far back MS
will fix the daylight savings time thing come 2007. I would hope at least
Win98 and NT4. I doubt Win95, NT3.51 or earlier. But this is an opportunity
to help obsolete pre-XP platforms so anything is possible.

We'll be lucky to get the patch in Win2K -- I think we can forget about
anything earlier than that.