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Date:	Sun, 11 Mar 2007 21:36:32 -0700
From:	Colin Campbell <cmcampb@adelphia.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: OT: hacking TZ on the Dark Side

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J R FOX wrote:
> Just in case some of you spend at least some time
> consorting with the Devil (I mean, Bill G.), and esp.
> in view of all the TZ and DST threads we've had here,
> I thought I'd pass along this item I just found on
> another List.
>
> Jordan
>
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
>>> 2) In XP, if you don't trust M$ patches, you can
> do this too,
>>> but I was surprised when I was looking at the XP
> Date & Time
>>> tabs to see an automatic synchronization tab. Why
> wouldn't that
>>> take care of the whole thing?
>
> Because the fundamental concept of what constitute the
> beginning and end dates of DST has changed in the USA,
> by law. You would think, in unsupported versions of
> Windows (past "End-of-Life", by M$'s definition) e.g.
> Win2K, that changing the TZ environment variable would
> take care of everything. But it doesn't. Or maybe it
> would if I rebooted; but I don't want to reboot.
>
>> I'm running XP-SP2 with current updates. The clock
> changed
>> automagically, hands off.
>
> Supposedly, M$ only distributed that fix for XP and
> Vista. Somewhere I read that they want $4000 for the
> fix for other OSes, which strikes me as a tad
> heavyhanded. Anyway, DL a copy of TZEdit.exe, follow
> instructions -- and problem solved!
>
> http://www.fastservers.net/blog/operating-systems/the_new_dday_unsupported_oses/
>
> BTW, the correct "full-form" TZ variable for the U.S.
> Eastern Time Zone is now:
>
> TZ=EST+05:00:00EDT+04:00:00,M3.2.0/02:00:00,M11.1.0/02:00:00
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------

Jordan,
I used TZEDIT.EXE on my Win2K Pro on my older PC, and when I booted it
today, found that the time had not advanced.

I used the Microsoft fix on Win XP on my newer PC, and it worked just fine.

I checked eCS 1.1 on my older PC, where I installed the eComStation fix,
and that worked fine. (That is where I'm posting from.)

I haven't yet checked eCS 1.2 on my newer PC, because it was in use for
iPod updating today, but I expect it will have worked as well.

So, in summary, I'm batting .750 - not bad for baseball, and I hadn't
booted to Win2K Pro since I don't know when until I wanted to put in the
Daylight Savings Time fix.
Colin

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