In:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp....6bd4c45037ef29
Lyle wrote:
:Terry Kreft wrote:
:
:>Suck it and See?
:
:Change the clock on your PC to just before the effective date/time
and see
:what happens after the clock ticks over. :
:
:
:
:I !!!!!think!!!!! that unless something changes these registry
settings
:(below) on my computer then the changes will be made in the first
week
:of April and the last week of October.
:
:Will something change them automatically? I'd guess that MS or Nist
or
:someone else will send out a reg file or patch we can import that
will
:do this.
:
:
:If not they can be edited manually in regedit (maybe not a good idea
:for the not-so-brave)
:or with
:Private Declare Function SetTimeZoneInfo rmation _
: Lib "kernel32" _
: (lpTimeZoneInfo rmation As TIME_ZONE_INFOR MATION) _
: As Long
:ot they can be exported, edited in notepad or similar and them
imported
:back.
:
:
:Perhpas they are modified by time updates but doubt it. Messing
with
:people's registry settings is unlikely to win friends and influence
:people. Well, of course if you are MS, obviously you don't care
about
:that.
:
:
:But what are they? They're supposed????to be SystemTime Types
:Private Type SYSTEMTIME
: wYear As Integer
: wMonth As Integer
: wDayOfWeek As Integer
: wDay As Integer
: wHour As Integer
: wMinute As Integer
: wSecond As Integer
: wMilliseconds As Integer
:End Type
:
:
:but they don't look like that to me. Perhaps Windows cheats on the
:storage and just stores the ordinal of the Sunday with respect to
month
:in place of day of week and hour in place of day (day of month).
:
:
:Key Name:
:HKEY_LOCAL_MAC HINE\SYSTEM\Cur rentControlSet\ Control
\TimeZoneInform ation
:Class Name: <NO CLASS>
:Last Write Time: 2006-04-02 - 05:38
:Value 0
: Name: Bias
: Type: REG_DWORD
: Data: 0x12c
:
:
:Value 1
: Name: StandardName
: Type: REG_SZ
: Data: Eastern Standard Time
:
:
:Value 2
: Name: StandardBias
: Type: REG_DWORD
: Data: 0x0
:
:
:Value 3
: Name: StandardStart
: Type: REG_BINARY
: Data:
:00000000 00 00 0a 00 05 00 02 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
:.............. ..
:
:
:Value 4
: Name: DaylightName
: Type: REG_SZ
: Data: Eastern Daylight Time
:
:
:Value 5
: Name: DaylightBias
: Type: REG_DWORD
: Data: 0xffffffc4
:
:
:Value 6
: Name: DaylightStart
: Type: REG_BINARY
: Data:
:00000000 00 00 04 00 01 00 02 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
:.............. ..
:
:
:Value 7
: Name: ActiveTimeBias
: Type: REG_DWORD
: Data: 0xf0
:
:
:ramble ... ramble ... ramble
Lyle,
Your registry hack has been working well for me; I hope it will work
on Nov. 4, but I'm not curious enough to change the date to test it
beforehand. I'm posting to note that on my W2K Pro OS, some updates
caused me to have CurrentControlS et, ControlSet001 and ControlSet002
in the registry (at least I don't remember putting them there). The
combinations of TimeZoneInforma tion caused some problems, but when the
information was applied to all three registry locations everything
started working properly again.
James A. Fortune
CD********@Fort uneJames.com
