ad and Time zone GMT

[eric romero]

Hi all

Is there any way from AD to assing the GMT time zone to the workstations in
our AD childomain?

 

[Jimmy Andersson [MVP]]

You can set it with 'net time /setsntp:<servername>'. Is this what you mean
by timezone?

Regards,
/Jimmy

 

[eric romero]

that does not modify the "GMT +" in the workstations.
What I need is to change the GMT+ "time zone" in the workstations.

 

[Jimmy Andersson [MVP]]

Ok, got it. I found a post from Torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI.
You should be able to use this in a script.

<snip>
Time zone change from command line (Win2k/WinXP):
Control.exe TIMEDATE.CPL,,/Z (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada); Tijuana

alternatively:

RUNDLL32.EXE SHELL32.DLL,Control_RunDLL TIMEDATE.CPL,,/Z (GMT-08:00) Pacific
Time (US & Canada); Tijuana

where '(GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada); Tijuana' is the timezone to
be set.

Input value behind /Z is from the Display value under the registry key
'HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Time Zones'
You can use the Std value in those registry keys as well, this is equivalent
with "(GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada); Tijuana":
Control.exe TIMEDATE.CPL,,/Z Pacific Standard Time
--
torgeir
<snip>

Regards,
/Jimmy
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