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Unofficial Win2K Daylight Saving Time Fix

Posted by kdawson on from the it's-about-time dept.

Saturn2003a writes "Microsoft has stated that they will not be offering a patch for the new US Daylight Saving Time for Windows 2000 and earlier. Only customers with an extended support agreement can get a Hotfix from Microsoft. To get around this, IntelliAdmin has created an unofficial patch (source code provided) that will fix Daylight Saving Time on Windows 2000 and Windows NT machines."

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  1. It's not like there are no other options by WalterGR · · Score: 5, Informative

    This knowledge base article from Microsoft describes how to use the Time Zone Editor utility (which you can download from that page) to adjust time zone settings.

    If you need to update several computers, it also describes which registry keys to export. You can then import those registry keys in a logon script or whatever.

    It's not like people/companies running Win2k are SOL.

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  2. DST in some countries changes every year... by random_dg · · Score: 5, Informative

    In the country I live in DST is on a different date every year, and is based on when some
    holiday happens to occur in the lunar calendar, so every year in our data centers we either
    change the clocks manually, or rely on the Domain Controller on changing the time for
    the servers and workstations in the domain.
    And we don't complain to Microsoft for not providing us a fix for it.

    -D

  3. Re:Well... by silas_moeckel · · Score: 4, Informative

    Are you sure? Last I knew it used sntp to send around time data thats all in UTC with the local machines converting it to local time. I could be completely off though been a long time since I was forced to run windows.

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  4. Re:New Daylight Savings Time rules? by gstoddart · · Score: 4, Informative
    News to me. Got links or references to share on that? If it hadn't been for this story, I'd have not known about that, thanks.

    Well, it was passed into law in August of 2005, so it's been around for a while. Here's a link to the relevant bits. Following is the relevant changes:

    * In 2006, DST will begin at 2 a.m. on the first Sunday of April (April 2, 2006) and Standard Time will begin at 2 a.m. on the last Sunday in October (October 29, 2006), as under the current rules.

            * However, beginning in 2007, DST will begin at 2 a.m. on the second Sunday in March (March 11, 2007) and Standard Time will begin at 2 a.m. on the first Sunday in November (November 4, 2007).


    It actually got quite a bit of news coverage at the time. It's been on Slashdot several times as well.

    Cheers

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  5. Re:But they're still an asshole. by Mister+Whirly · · Score: 4, Informative

    You don't need the extended hotfix to "fix" W2K. The official free solutions from Microsoft can be found here - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/914387

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