KB 129574 revisited: time to move the clocks forward!

[Simon Elliott]

It's that time of year again where (in the UK) we are getting ready to
move the clocks forward and change from GMT/UTC to British Summer Time.

Which leads me back to our Windows 2000/SP1 PC and the enormous problems
this always causes me.

After a change to or from daylight saving time, the time stamps of files
seen in Windows Explorer are shown incorrectly if the file was created
before the time change. If I copy the file to our W98SE PC the
timestamps of these files as seen on the W98SE PC are incorrect too.

This behaviour is described in KB 129574.

This is a huge pain when it comes to synchronising sets of files which
are being worked on by groups of people.

The first, obvious question is: do we change our Windows 2000 box to
British Summer Time in a few days, or should we leave it on GMT/UTC?

The second question is: is there a product or service pack which
addresses this?

Any thoughts?

 

[Steve Nielsen]

According the article you site this is by design and your only choice is
to not automatically adjust for DST.

You should have at least SP2 on that box for security reasons; important
patches for serious vulnerabilities require at least SP2. Others will
tell you to go to SP4, but I've seen (and read about) so many problems
with SP4 that I don't recommend going beyond SP3. SP2 and SP3 have
proven stable on every box I've seen.

Steve