Daylight savings time blues

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From: Scott Marquardt (wasREMOVEket5_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/07/04 

Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 17:08:02 -0500

Despite having the time zone widget set to automatically adjust for
daylight savings time, many of our XP machines are giving users bogus times
in their Outlook calendars (an hour off from the folks calling the meeting,
for example). These users are all in the same time zone.

Examination of our domain's workstations using a WMI Win32_TimeZone script
shows that just one value is at variance: DaylightName. Manual examination
of HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation shows that
indeed, only this value is at variance across our domain. Some machines
have it right, others don't. However, all machines are set to pick up the
zone automatically.

Interestingly, unchecking the setting, checking it again, and applying the
setting yields a change in the time zone to the desired value (Central
Daylight Time, rather than Central Standard Time).

It appears that the automatic feature is not working in some cases (I
emphasize that *all* other values in the registry are identical, including
the DaylightStart and StandardStart values).

Any ideas? 

-- 
Scott

Relevant Pages

  • Daylight savings time blues
    ... many of our XP machines are giving users bogus times ... These users are all in the same time zone. ... Daylight Time, ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
  • Re: Daylight savings time blues
    ... many of our XP machines are giving users bogus times ... These users are all in the same time zone. ... > Daylight Time, ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
  • Re: Daylight savings time blues
    ... many of our XP machines are giving users bogus times ... These users are all in the same time zone. ... > Daylight Time, ...
    (microsoft.public.outlook)
  • Re: Daylight savings time blues
    ... Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] opined thusly on Jul 7: ... back and the times are OK, but the freakin' Daylight setting is still all ... Does ANYONE have any idea what it takes to remotely set machines to ... These users are all in the same time zone. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
  • Re: Daylight savings time blues
    ... Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] opined thusly on Jul 7: ... back and the times are OK, but the freakin' Daylight setting is still all ... Does ANYONE have any idea what it takes to remotely set machines to ... These users are all in the same time zone. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.scripting)