I'm very surprised there's not any posts out here regarding this. Does
anyone know what to do about this on a Windows NT workstation? This OS is
probably the one I know least about, and there aren't any patches out there
specific to NT.

I downloaded the tzedit tool for W2K and will manually update (luckilly I
only have 2 machines out there that have it). I have no idea if that will
work with NT though.

I believe you mean the auto change of time?

I don't know specifically about the workstation, but under NT Server you can
set it to automatically change time by going to MY COMPUTER / CONTROL PANEL/
DATE / TIME - TIME ZONE and check AUTOMATICALLY ADJUST CLOCK.

Dee



"Penny" wrote:

No I'm talking about the fact that the daylight savings time (which usually
doesn't happen until April is happening on March 11, and the change back to
Standard time doesn't happen until November4th. That's a whole month
difference than before.

Yes that's what I'm talking about, but there's no obvious way to get it to
automatically change on the right dates.

There's patches for the newer OSs but nothing for NT anything (Server or
workstation)

"Dee" wrote:

Penny wrote:
Hi Penny,

I'm not much help as far as being aware of changes to the dates that
'Daylight Saving' is to be applied in your part of the world - I live in
the Southern Hemisphere :-)

Your suggestion of using TZEdit is the correct approach under the
circumstances. Microsoft will CERTAINLY NOT be releasing any public
patches to address this issue - they are quietly praying that everybody
using NT4 will 'upgrade' (I use the term extremely loosely :-P ) They
have in fact done everything humanly possible to kill off NT4 - I'm
actually surprised they haven't jumped on this issue as yet another
'reason' to stop using NT4 !

If the TZEdit from Win2k doesn't work it is available for download from
a very helpful person in Germany (I think) The link is:

http://www.dynawell.com/support/ResKit/winnt.asp

My attempt as useful reference material for NT4 is here:

http://nt4ref.zcm.com.au Hope this helps.

Calvin.

I know exactly what you're talking about in MS not releasing public patches,
not only are they not doing that, they want to charge me in the thousands for
some "custom support agreement"! I just got off the phone with them and
they're making it sound like a lengthy process too.

In all hopes the tzedit tool will work, I'm not finding anything on that
first site you gave me on the subject.

Thanks for your reply. So are you in Australia?

"Calvin" wrote:

Penny wrote:
This site you mean ? http://www.dynawell.com/support/ResKit/winnt.asp
After posting the link I looked - you're right - they don't have TZEdit
in the collection :-(

As far as I know the TZEdit for Win2k should work OK on an NT4 system
anyway. In theory you can actually manually edit the timezone info
stored in the registry by hand. This knowledgebase article describes the
process ( http://support.microsoft.com/?id=165124 ) but it doesn't give
the detail of the binary data and how that translates to the timezone
settings. Theoretically you may be able to 'borrow' a copy of the
modified timezone data from a XP system to manually 'paste' back into a
NT4 system if you had to - may be fun to try.

Yes - Brisbane - have been all my life :-)

Penny wrote:
The 'custom support agreements' are a JOKE ! Again a case of having to
be seen to offer help - whilst in reality, doing everything within their
power to make sure that nobody actually gets any ! Hence why
http://NT4Ref.zcm.com.au was born :-)

Calvin.

Calvin wrote:

I 've just tried TZEdit from then Win95(!)KernelToys.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/d...oy/default.asp

It seems to have read all the timezone information correctly on my NT4 machine (I
haven't changed/saved anything, though).

[...]

There is an explanation for the most imortant binary data in the German WinFaq:

http://www.winfaq.de/faq_html/Conten...?h=tip0188.htm

I you can't understand this at all ask me and I'll translate it ...

I was in Brisbane at the world expo in 1988. What a wonderful city and country. I
hope I'll see it once again in my life, :-)

Stephan

http://www.intelliadmin.com/blog/200...-daylight.html

Tested here and works on my machines.

John

Penny wrote:

This works. It's what I did on the 11th when I couldn't find any info on
this issue. The only caveat is changing the exported REG file. The easy way
is export from both and copy the TZI= lines from the XP version to the NT
version.

Matt