I've installed Shachar's registry on my workplace Windows XP but it doesn't seem
to help (I rebooted too). Anyone else tried it?
You need administrator rights for such a change, and if you are a part of a domain, there could be a domain policy overriding those changes.
Shachar's post made me think it would be useful to have a converter from UNIX
zone files to Windows registry entries - does such a program exist?
BTW - this morning I discovered that apparently the latest Sun JDK 1.4 knows the
right DST for Israel. Looks like even Java knows better than Windows how to handle this :).
For years MS israel ignored this issue, their site advocating using TZedit (not a part of windows) or registry editing (with the usual yard long disclaimer).
This is strange because MS has the tools to implement those changed easily via the windows update or OGO tools.
Too many Windows sysadmins simply change the time....
Cheers,
--Amos
Ely Levy wrote:
I think there are a whole mailing list called timekeepers about making time files avalible for all platforms I think hujics has a mirror of it (or the original?) in: http://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/israel/
Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel
On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Hi list,
We all know the phenomena. We send an email to some Windows user, and we get the complaint "But your time is wrong". Why? Because email is sent according to time on local machine + GMT offset. For Windows machine, the GMT offset is usually wrong about half of the year.
The solution? http://www.lingnu.com/IsraelTimeZone.zip It has time zone definitions for Israel for 2003 and 2004. Later years will be available when Poraz decides when that is meant to be. Of course, you can only merge one of them at a time.
Once you merge the relevant time zone, you will need to load the control panel setting and set "automatically adjust for daylight saving". Viola! your computer will keep the time.
This also allows Windows users to use NTP and other time synchronization protocols, get proper calendar, etc. Feel free to spread the word. The more people use the proper time zone, the more fluent the Internet communication is going to be.
The time zone was tested on Windows 2000, and should work on other
Windows NT platforms as well. Don't sue me if this screws up your computer.
Shachar
-- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu OpenSource Consulting http://www.lingnu.com/
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