Yesterday Sweden and the rest of Europe moved their clocks one hour
backwards. It is "normal" time again. Summertime is over or, as you
Americans call it, if I'm not wrong, Daylight Savings Time.
In order to have the correct time-stamp on your e-mail, you must change
the clock in your computer as well.
With good old DOS, this is accomplished manually in a rather simple and
straightforward way:
At the DOS-prompt, issue the command "time" and then write the new,
corrected time. If you're using an e-mailprogram like Pegasus for DOS,
which utilizes the "global variable" TZ (timezone) to time-stamp its mail,
you should change your statement in autoexec.bat from "SET TZ = +0200"
to "SET TZ = +0100".
In other programs, like Arachne, you'll have to change this setting manually
in some configuration menu.
However, I also happen to run Windows 95 on this box. And it is supposed
to do all this automatically. Well, strange things began to happen about
one month ago... Then I recalled that the roll-over date from "Daylight" to
"Standard" time had been changed some years ago in the European
Community, and this was after Win 95 had been released. So I had to
correct the automatic setting manually anyway.
Then I wondered, couldn't the roll-over-date be changed somehow to
reflect the new praxis? I tried to find some advice on how to do this at
Microsoft's support site, but in vain. Then I tried to poke inside The
Registry, and way down there I found something called
"TimeZoneInformation". Fine, only to enter the corrected values then?
Well, it didn't appear as simple. There were a lot of strange numbers, all in
hex, which had to be changed. And I don't know how. Anybody has any
idea? Here is the registry entry:
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\control\TimeZoneInf
ormation]
"ActiveTimeBias"=hex:c4,ff,ff,ff
"StandardName"="V�stra Europa, normaltid"
"DaylightName"="V�stra Europa, sommartid"
"Bias"=hex:c4,ff,ff,ff
"StandardBias"=hex:00,00,00,00
"DaylightBias"=hex:c4,ff,ff,ff
"StandardStart"=hex:00,00,09,00,00,00,05,00,03,00,00,00,00,00,00,00
"DaylightStart"=hex:00,00,03,00,00,00,05,00,02,00,00,00,00,00,00,00
"DaylightFlag"=hex:01,00,00,00
Or as the Germans say: "Warum soll man dass einfach machen wenn man
es so sch�n komplizieren kann"
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