DST changes

[kengr]

Since I was up, I watched my computers at the time change. Along with my cell phone.

Good thing I did as it turns out that even though Windows 2000 is still "supported", MS didn't decide it need to be automatically patched for the new rules.

A it of digging on MSes web site and I found the answer. I had to download a program (TZedit) and run it, then *manually* edit the time zone definitions.

When I get a Win98 box up again, I'll see if it'll work on that.

Grrr.

Comments

Found this one this morning

[morgan-gw.livejournal.com]

http://solprovider.com/articles/win98timezones -- which IIRC has a link to a page that deals with other systems.

Of course, I did this after 2am local time, so I won't know until October how well it worked (unless I play with the date on the computer to test it).

Now I just have to change all the other clocks in the house, and then make sure the VCRs don't change again in a few weeks (sigh).

Re: Found this one this morning

[kengr]

Alas, my Dana riuns PalmOS 4.1, which (I am told) there's no patch for. So I just manually changed it for now.

And the old Netware server I just changed manually anyway (It has a problem with clock drift anyway, so I change it every few months as a normal thing)

[lone-cat.livejournal.com]

It will. TZedit is on my Win98 disk, and I used it to fix the DST start date, on my system.