Daylight Savings is coming

[Charlie Bress]

I have looked at kb914387 that provides instructions to reset the start and
end dates for Daylight Savings Times that are effective this year. There
had been an earlier knowledge base article that had been designated for XP
SP2 only that I tried it out on my two systems at home with no problems.
That earlier method has been dropped in favor of the newer one kb914387.



When I dropped over to a friend's house to try out the new method we
discovered that the dates on his system were already set to the new dates.
He claims he had not done anything to update them.



Was there an automatic update sent out to XP systems that did the update? Or
do you think he has forgotten that he had already used the old method?



My reason for asking is that we have a small community computer club. Some
folks are on XP while there are still several on ME or 98. If XP got
automagically updated those folks need not do anything.



Charlie

 

[Ron Hardin]

My reason for asking is that we have a small community computer club. Some
folks are on XP while there are still several on ME or 98. If XP got
automagically updated those folks need not do anything.

I changed my WIN95 machine (look at the headers on this msg) to use standard
time year round, and just toggle between Atlantic and Eastern time zones manually.

 

[LVTravel]

There was a fix in the latest batch of updates on Windows
update site for Win 2003 & XP only.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=931836 If the person had
autoupdates turned on he got it with the 13 or so other
patches last Tuesday.

Those running pre XP OS will have to fix the DST issue some
other way. Ron's way seems to be the simplest for older
OSs.

 

[Tom Willett]

"Unofficial" Win2k/NT4 DST patch:
http://www.intelliadmin.com/blog/2007/01/unofficial-windows-2000-daylight.html

"Unofficial" Win98/ME DST Patch:
http://www.intelliadmin.com/downloads.htm

Both work quite well.


| There was a fix in the latest batch of updates on Windows
| update site for Win 2003 & XP only.
| http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=931836 If the person had
| autoupdates turned on he got it with the 13 or so other
| patches last Tuesday.
|
| Those running pre XP OS will have to fix the DST issue some
| other way. Ron's way seems to be the simplest for older
| OSs.
|
|
| | >I have looked at kb914387 that provides instructions to
| >reset the start and end dates for Daylight Savings Times
| >that are effective this year. There had been an earlier
| >knowledge base article that had been designated for XP SP2
| >only that I tried it out on my two systems at home with no
| >problems. That earlier method has been dropped in favor of
| >the newer one kb914387.
| >
| >
| >
| > When I dropped over to a friend's house to try out the new
| > method we discovered that the dates on his system were
| > already set to the new dates. He claims he had not done
| > anything to update them.
| >
| >
| >
| > Was there an automatic update sent out to XP systems that
| > did the update? Or do you think he has forgotten that he
| > had already used the old method?
| >
| >
| >
| > My reason for asking is that we have a small community
| > computer club. Some folks are on XP while there are still
| > several on ME or 98. If XP got automagically updated those
| > folks need not do anything.
| >
| >
| >
| > Charlie
| >
| >
| >
| >
|
|

 

[LVTravel]

Tom, I knew there was patches out there for 98 & 2K machines
as I have seen references in either this or another NG.
Glad you posted them. I don't have any of these machines at
home but one of my work sites uses 2K Pro OS on their
workstations exclusively. Of course their 2003 servers have
probably never been updated with all the fixes that Windows
provided.