[time-nuts] Concern over Daylight Saving Time

Bruce Lane kyrrin at bluefeathertech.com
Sat Jan 20 22:12:04 EST 2007


	Thank you! This will take care of things nicely.

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On 20-Jan-07 at 21:04 Mike Suhar wrote:

>Windows 2000 does not have a patch.  You will have to run the utility from
>the Windows 2000 resource kit that will allow you to change the date of the
>daylight savings time switch over.  I thought it was called
>tz<something>.exe but I found timezone.exe on my Windows 2000 system:
>
>C:\Program Files\Resource Pro Kit>timezone /?
>
>Daylight Saving Time Update Utility Version 1.2
>Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1997. All rights reserved
>
>TIMEZONE [/?] [/g | /s StartDate EndDate]
>
>  /?: Command line help
>  /g: Get the current timezone
>  /s: Set a new timezone
>  StartDate: Date that Daylight Saving Time begins
>  EndDate: Date that Daylight Saving Time ends
>
>  StartDate and EndDate use format:  Hour:DayOfWeek:Day:Month
>    Hour: 00-23 (specifies the hour)
>    DayOfWeek: 0-6 (specifies the day of the week; Sunday = 0, Monday = 1,
>                    and so on)
>    Day : 1-5 (specifies the occurrence of day in the month; 1 = first
>               occurrence of day, 2 = second occurrence of day, ..., 5 =
>last
>               occurrence of day)
>               (if DayOfWeek is Sunday, then 1 = first Sunday, 4 = fourth
>               Sunday, 5 = last Sunday)
>    Month: 01-12 (specifies the month; January = 1, February = 2, and so
>on)
>
>Example:
>
>  TIMEZONE /s 02:0:5:04 02:2:1:10
>
>    Timezone will be changed to:
>    Daylight Saving Time begins at 2:00 on last Sunday in April (02:0:5:04)
>    Daylight Saving Time ends at 2:00 on forth Tuesday in October
>(02:2:4:10)
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
>Behalf Of Bruce Lane
>Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 8:48 PM
>To: time-nuts at febo.com
>Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Concern over Daylight Saving Time
>
>Good eve,
>
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>On 20-Jan-07 at 12:05 Didier Juges wrote:
>
>>It seems that Bruce is not connected to an external NTP server since he 
>>said he has to manually update his NTP server to change to DST.
>
>	Actually, no, I should have clarified. I have two separate master
>clocks. The first is an NTP server, dedicated to the LAN. It has no offset
>capability, and produces UTC time codes. It does not observe DST at all.
>
>	The second master clock runs off the same GPS antenna, but has no
>LAN capability. It takes in GPS code, and produces UTC, but it also outputs
>an IRIG-B time code stream modulated onto a 1kHz audio carrier and you can
>program that stream to be offset from UTC by however much you want. This
>second clock is the one that I need to alter the DST dates on (it is
>configurable for DST start and end dates) this year to accommodate the
>extended period.
>
>	I am, based on what I've learned in the past day or so, a bit
>concerned about my computers. I don't think the Unix boxes will have
>problems, but I'm concerned about the Windows systems since we're all
>Win2000 Pro here (I will not, under ANY conditions, "upgrade" to XP or
>Vista!)
>
>	Keep the peace(es).
>
>
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