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Date:	Sun, 11 Mar 2007 13:45:21 -0700
From:	J R FOX <jr_fox@pacbell.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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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

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> > 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

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