[time-nuts] Win XP and NIST Time

[James Harrison]

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On 23/03/2013 14:50, Jim Lux wrote:
> It wouldn't surprise me that XP doesn't have an accurate table of 
> this, since that would be one of the casualties of "being past 
> support EOL" although the KB entries I link below indicate that 
> they ARE still providing updates for XP.  There are a lot of
> places where timezones can go wrong because it's all stored in the 
> registry and there have been updates over the years that are 
> incremental and others that purport to be monolithic, etc.

XP is still up to date with timezone changes as far as I am aware but
you will need to ensure all (including optional) updates are
installed, and that may only be possible with an enterprise support
contract now.

If all else fails, you can disable automatic timezone updates with the
following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation
DisableAutoDaylightTimeSet REG_DWORD (1 = disable daylight-savings
adjustment, 0 or not set = enable adjustment)

Not sure if third party software can keep you in the right zone then,
but I'd imagine so.

Really though the correct fix is to upgrade to Windows 7. It's stable,
works well, and will be supported for years to come; though if you
want long term stability/updates you're better off looking into Linux
systems.

Cheers,
James Harrison
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