TZEdit, DaylightSavingsFix, or what? for standalone Win2K machines?

[LurfysMa]

I have 2 Win2K machines on a p2p lan.

The clocks are off by an hour. I reset them manually, but I have a
startup utility (YATS32) that sets the system clock every day, so I
will be back to the wrong time tomorrow morning.

Checking the Microsoft web site, it appears that no updates are
available for W2K because it is no longer supported.

(As an aside, I think it was still supported when the feds passed this
stupid daylight savings time law. Anyone want to start a class action
lawsuit? I've wasted several hours of my sooper valuable time so far.)

Anyway, reading back through this ng, I see two suggestions: TZEdit
(from Microsoft) and DayLightSavingsFix (from IntelliAdmin).

1. TZEdit. The online instructions (kb 317211) are for Brasilia, which
makes me a little nervous. I also saw some comments about updating
registry keys, which also makes me nervous.

2. DayLightSavingsFix. The online help says that won't work now that
it's already past 3/11/07 1:59 am. Can I set the date back to 3/10,
run the program, then set it ahead?

Can anyone post or point me to a few simple instructions for updating
a machine that is not connected to a server?

Thanks

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[Kurt]

I have 2 Win2K machines on a p2p lan.

The clocks are off by an hour. I reset them manually, but I have a
startup utility (YATS32) that sets the system clock every day, so I
will be back to the wrong time tomorrow morning.

Checking the Microsoft web site, it appears that no updates are
available for W2K because it is no longer supported.

(As an aside, I think it was still supported when the feds passed this
stupid daylight savings time law. Anyone want to start a class action
lawsuit? I've wasted several hours of my sooper valuable time so far.)

Anyway, reading back through this ng, I see two suggestions: TZEdit
(from Microsoft) and DayLightSavingsFix (from IntelliAdmin).

1. TZEdit. The online instructions (kb 317211) are for Brasilia, which
makes me a little nervous. I also saw some comments about updating
registry keys, which also makes me nervous.

2. DayLightSavingsFix. The online help says that won't work now that
it's already past 3/11/07 1:59 am. Can I set the date back to 3/10,
run the program, then set it ahead?

Can anyone post or point me to a few simple instructions for updating
a machine that is not connected to a server?

Thanks

Worth mentioning one more time:

www.intelliadmin.com

in the download section, FREE, a patch utility for W2K and 98. Works great.

....kurt

 

[wysard]

1. TZEdit. The online instructions (kb 317211) are for Brasilia, which

makes me a little nervous. I also saw some comments about updating
registry keys, which also makes me nervous.

I used the tzedit method, and while it worked, I had a vbs Task
scheduled to run at 3:01am for management, to let them know if the
boxes were OK. I guess something happened, cause they (3 boxes, 2
servers and a workstation) all reported in at 4:01am. Schedules
thereafter, which started at 6am, all ran fine, but I'm still at a
loss as to why all these specific Tasks all reported in an hour late.

If IntelliAdmin has already done the work of cobbling together that
tzedit stuff, I'd use that instead; less margin for error.

 

[wysard]

I used the tzedit method, and while it worked, I had a vbs Task
scheduled to run at 3:01am for management, to let them know if the
boxes were OK. I guess something happened, cause they (3 boxes, 2
servers and a workstation) all reported in at 4:01am. Schedules
thereafter, which started at 6am, all ran fine, but I'm still at a
loss as to why all these specific Tasks all reported in an hour late.

If IntelliAdmin has already done the work of cobbling together that
tzedit stuff, I'd use that instead; less margin for error.

Oops, rather I used the megasteps from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/914387
.. Mondays. Go with IntelliAdmin.

 

[Sid Knee]

Worth mentioning one more time:

www.intelliadmin.com

in the download section, FREE, a patch utility for W2K and 98. Works great.

Does this patch *all* timezones?

Can it be used after you've patched one timezone with TZEdit?

 

[Gary Smith]

Kurt wrote:

Does this patch *all* timezones?

Can it be used after you've patched one timezone with TZEdit?

Yes to both questions.

 

[Sid Knee]

Yes to both questions.

Thanks, Gary