Wow! I am still here despite the much feared, even more hated, Daylight Saving Time change! And all of my business PCs updated correctly (including the NT4SP6a Server with a 3rd party patch). The M$ Win2000ProSP4 patch even worked! The only machine that did not update was Lynda's (wife) personal Dell. Then again, in fairness I have it set to not update its XP Media OS automatically, and neither she or I have performed any updates for over a month (until this morning). Once I updated her to the latest XP Media patches her DST adjustment kicked in just fine.
If anyone is interested in the M$ 2000ProSP4 or the 3rd party patch solutions for Win9x - XP SP0/1, you can hit my ftp Server as an Anonymous User (do not use Passive Mode, it is far too slow - and may not let you in anyway), navigate to the "SoftwareDaylightSavingPatches" directory. Under there you will find the software I used. My ftp Server site is located at "gilhale.dnsalias.com" if you are using an ftp Client app. If you are using IE, you must be using at least IE6, and under the Advanced Options you need to enable "ftp Folder View", and disable "Passive Mode". Then, in the IE Address Entry field, you can hit my ftp Server with "ftp://gilhale.dnsalias.com";. If you prefer to use your Windows File Explorer you can enter the same address in its Address Entry field. Another nice time related app I use to synch many PCs to accurate Time Servers is Atomic Clock. It is offered for free, and is located under my "Software\AtomicClockForPCs_Free" directory. Be certain to go into the "File" menu dropdown and set it to load with Windows, and to run minimized. I use that app with one main Server/PC that I am certain will "always" be running, then point the rest of the PCs on the LAN to that Atomic Clock synched machine via the following "Net" command, which I add to the Windows Scheduler to fire off once each day early in the morning, but after any other scheduled tasks are done running. That take the cumulative load off the various Time Servers over the Internet connection. net.exe time \\ServerName /set /yes As an aside, as predicted by one of our FoxHeads a while ago, the AtomicClock time synch software did not adjust for the new DST change. You still need the new DST patch installed locally on each PC, as the AtomicClock app apparently indexes everything from GMT, and the local machine's OS will make TimeZone & DST changes internally. What a PITA, eh? Ciao! Gil Gilbert M. Hale New Freedom Data Resources Pittsford, NY 585-359-8085 - Office (Rolls To Cellular) 585-202-4341 - Cellular/VoiceMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/mixed text/plain (text body -- kept) application/ms-tnef --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
