This has been discussed on the www.patchmanagement.org listserve as well and has been a concern there too. (The issue is this is not seen as a security patch and 2k machines only get security patches, thus the daylight fix patches are only being released for XP/2k3, and not 2k) There are also issues with Exchange/OWA and those patches for supported versions of Exchange (my understanding) will be mu'd/wsus out later. I know for a fact that once when I had a machine that had the "auto change for daylight savings" unchecked when it should have been checked.. regardless of it's sync status with the server, for a few days after daylight savings, that machine saw everyone else's calendar an hour off and visa versa. There are scripts discussed on that listserve to get the 2k machines in line and in the right sync'ing.
Brian Desmond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Richard- The time sync process is just going to set the actual time (think UTC) not the timezone. If the client thinks it is GMT-5 then it will set the time accordingly. Given the rochester.rr address - U of R or RIT? Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] c - 312.731.3132 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Kline Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2006 2:45 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: Sorta... AD and the 3/07 Time Change This question addresses the March'07 Dailylight Saving's time change in the US and Canada (has Mexico joined in?). I work for an institute of higher learning where the policies (human, not domain) get a little... unevenly suggested. So please grant me some leniency as to why this question is even asked :) Does belonging to a domain with properly configured time synchronization lessen the concern for applying the XP patches as they relate to the March 2007 time change? Or the need to take special care with Windows 2000 workstations? In other words, will AD sync the PC clock on Windows 2000 workstations to the correct hour during next next March's "leap ahead" Speaking of time: Happy New Year to Everyone! Thank you. Richard