Terry said:
Suck it and See?
Change the clock on your PC to just before the effective date/time and see
what happens after the clock ticks over.
I !!!!!think!!!!! that unless something changes these registry settings
(below) on my computer then the changes will be made in the first week
of April and the last week of October.
Will something change them automatically? I'd guess that MS or Nist or
someone else will send out a reg file or patch we can import that will
do this.
If not they can be edited manually in regedit (maybe not a good idea
for the not-so-brave)
or with
Private Declare Function SetTimeZoneInformation _
Lib "kernel32" _
(lpTimeZoneInformation As TIME_ZONE_INFORMATION) _
As Long
ot they can be exported, edited in notepad or similar and them imported
back.
Perhpas they are modified by time updates but doubt it. Messing with
people's registry settings is unlikely to win friends and influence
people. Well, of course if you are MS, obviously you don't care about
that.
But what are they? They're supposed????to be SystemTime Types
Private Type SYSTEMTIME
wYear As Integer
wMonth As Integer
wDayOfWeek As Integer
wDay As Integer
wHour As Integer
wMinute As Integer
wSecond As Integer
wMilliseconds As Integer
End Type
but they don't look like that to me. Perhaps Windows cheats on the
storage and just stores the ordinal of the Sunday with respect to month
in place of day of week and hour in place of day (day of month).
Key Name:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation
Class Name: <NO CLASS>
Last Write Time: 2006-04-02 - 05:38
Value 0
Name: Bias
Type: REG_DWORD
Data: 0x12c
Value 1
Name: StandardName
Type: REG_SZ
Data: Eastern Standard Time
Value 2
Name: StandardBias
Type: REG_DWORD
Data: 0x0
Value 3
Name: StandardStart
Type: REG_BINARY
Data:
00000000 00 00 0a 00 05 00 02 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
.................
Value 4
Name: DaylightName
Type: REG_SZ
Data: Eastern Daylight Time
Value 5
Name: DaylightBias
Type: REG_DWORD
Data: 0xffffffc4
Value 6
Name: DaylightStart
Type: REG_BINARY
Data:
00000000 00 00 04 00 01 00 02 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
.................
Value 7
Name: ActiveTimeBias
Type: REG_DWORD
Data: 0xf0
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