Re: How to force time zone change down to workstations?

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as a followup to my last post... funny how it took people 4 days to complain
that the time wasn't right on their emails and meetings. weird
"wharfish" <wharfish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Noone adjusted the default. The local time IS right. It's the time zone
> that
> does not change to Central Daylight Time. The workstation remains on
> Central
> Standard time until you go in as Admin and manually change it or modify
> the
> registry to give permissions to the user on the [TimeZoneInformation] key
> to
> change the time zone.
>
>
>
> "Bruce Sanderson" wrote:
>
>> Well, the default in Windows is to automatically adjust the displayed
>> time
>> for Daylight Savings time. I suspect someone changed the default on your
>> workstaitions, so I don't think this is a Microsoft problem per se.
>> Automatic adjustment for Daylight Savings time has worked correctly on
>> all
>> the Windows computers I've worked on or supported over the years.
>>
>> However, you could build a custom Administrative Template (ADM file) to
>> set
>>
>>
>> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation
>> DisableAutoDaylightTimeSet (DWORD)
>>
>> to zero (see http://www.jsifaq.com/SUBC/TIP1400/rh1402.htm).
>>
>> See
>>
>>
>> http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/howitworks/management/rbppaper.aspor
>> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=E7D72FA1-62FE-4358-8360-8774EA8DB847&displaylang=enfor
>> information about building custom ADMs.--Bruce Sanderson MVPIt's
>> perfectly useless to know the right answer to the wrong
>> question."wharfish" <wharfish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
>> messagenews:DE7CF7C9-2538-483F-A689-3A2BDD1C9526@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Anyone
>> know how to force Daylight Savings Time zone change down to>
>> workstations? Workstations did not update time-zone information
>> lastweekend> and will only do so if authenticated as Administrator. Don't
>> feature goingto> 150 workstations and doing it manually.>> All I'm seeing
>> are some inelegant registry or script hacks to this problem> so far. I
>> can't believe there is no MS solution to this problem or are we> expected
>> to pay for the answer?
>>
>>


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