changing the daylight savings setting across the network

[Will]

Sorry about the double post but I just saw this news group and it seems more
appropriate:

I have a bunch of machines on my Win200 domian, they are WinXP sp1, and in
the date time control panel the "automatically adjust for daylight savings
time changes" check mark is not selected. This seems to be causing a
problem becuase even though the time is being set by the network, because
that is not selected the workstation time is still off by an hour.

If I go to an individual machine and check that off and restart, the problem
is fixed. My question is, how can I script this change from the domain
controller so that this option is selected each time they log in? That way
I don't have to go to every machine and do it manually, nor have my users do
it for themselves.

Thanks

 

[Jerold Schulman]

Sorry about the double post but I just saw this news group and it seems more
appropriate:

I have a bunch of machines on my Win200 domian, they are WinXP sp1, and in
the date time control panel the "automatically adjust for daylight savings
time changes" check mark is not selected. This seems to be causing a
problem becuase even though the time is being set by the network, because
that is not selected the workstation time is still off by an hour.

If I go to an individual machine and check that off and restart, the problem
is fixed. My question is, how can I script this change from the domain
controller so that this option is selected each time they log in? That way
I don't have to go to every machine and do it manually, nor have my users do
it for themselves.

Thanks

See tip 398 or 7385 in the 'Tips & Tricks' at http://www.jsiinc.com

You can use tip 4195 to do it on all PCs

Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com

 

[Will]

That at least got me going, thanks. The problem is "Automatically adjust
clock for daylight savings changes" is normally selected, I think for
Microsoft it's the default (?). My users were unchecked and off by an hour,
and I didn't want to have them be the ones to change it.

When that selection is made, there is no corresponding registry entry, which
makes me think it's some sort of default. However, when you UNCHECK
"Automatically adjust clock for daylight savings changes" it creates the
value DisableAutoDaylightTimeSet=1

I needed to delete the whole key, and recreate it, also updating the entries
that differentiate the Daylight Savings and Standard time, as unchecking the
original "Automatically adjust clock for daylight savings changes" makes
them equal to each other.

Thanks