[geeks] Windows and timezones

[William Kirkland]

I do not recall if this actually uses time zones correctly or not,  
but the following is an excerpt from a cheat sheet style document I  
put together for a Win NT class I took not too long ago ... I suspect  
that the key words may provide a better search for you in any case  
(even if this does not solve your issue the way you need it).

It does sync the clock to a ntp server ... (which implies gmt)


Start -> Run... -> regedit
	HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE ->SYSTEM -> CurrentControlSet
		Type                        SZ      NTP
		NtpServer                   SZ      192.168.203.10
		
		LocalNTP                    DWord   1
		Period                      DWord   24
		ReliableTimeSource          DWord   1
		MaxAllowedClockErrInSecs    DWord   5000


Start -> Run... -> cmd
	net stop w32time
	net start w32time
	w32tm -s



On Aug 26, 2006, at 07:45, geeks-request at sunhelp.org wrote:

> Message: 9
> Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 00:12:10 -0400
> From: Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
> Subject: Re: [geeks] Windows and timezones
> To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
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> Fri, 25 Aug 2006 @ 15:56 -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix said:
>
>> Does anyone know if there is a patch/hack/whatever to make Windows  
>> use a
>> real timezone, keeping the system clock in UTC?
>
> [ snip ]
>
> I've since done some more reading about this, and it appears to be
> hopeless.
>
> Windows NT did have code in the kernel to use UTC as the system clock,
> but it was taken out of their test routine after NT 3.51 and never
> really worked right.
>
> According to what I've read, even Windows Vista remains unable to  
> use a
> UTC system clock.
>
> It's so annoying...
>
>
>
> -- 
> shannon "AT" widomaker.com -- ["There is no such thing as  
> security.  Life
> is either bold adventure, or it is nothing -- Helen Keller"]