Thank you! This will take care of things nicely. *********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********
On 20-Jan-07 at 21:04 Mike Suhar wrote: >Windows 2000 does not have a patch. You will have to run the utility from >the Windows 2000 resource kit that will allow you to change the date of the >daylight savings time switch over. I thought it was called >tz<something>.exe but I found timezone.exe on my Windows 2000 system: > >C:\Program Files\Resource Pro Kit>timezone /? > >Daylight Saving Time Update Utility Version 1.2 >Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1997. All rights reserved > >TIMEZONE [/?] [/g | /s StartDate EndDate] > > /?: Command line help > /g: Get the current timezone > /s: Set a new timezone > StartDate: Date that Daylight Saving Time begins > EndDate: Date that Daylight Saving Time ends > > StartDate and EndDate use format: Hour:DayOfWeek:Day:Month > Hour: 00-23 (specifies the hour) > DayOfWeek: 0-6 (specifies the day of the week; Sunday = 0, Monday = 1, > and so on) > Day : 1-5 (specifies the occurrence of day in the month; 1 = first > occurrence of day, 2 = second occurrence of day, ..., 5 = >last > occurrence of day) > (if DayOfWeek is Sunday, then 1 = first Sunday, 4 = fourth > Sunday, 5 = last Sunday) > Month: 01-12 (specifies the month; January = 1, February = 2, and so >on) > >Example: > > TIMEZONE /s 02:0:5:04 02:2:1:10 > > Timezone will be changed to: > Daylight Saving Time begins at 2:00 on last Sunday in April (02:0:5:04) > Daylight Saving Time ends at 2:00 on forth Tuesday in October >(02:2:4:10) > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >Behalf Of Bruce Lane >Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 8:48 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Concern over Daylight Saving Time > >Good eve, > >*********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** > >On 20-Jan-07 at 12:05 Didier Juges wrote: > >>It seems that Bruce is not connected to an external NTP server since he >>said he has to manually update his NTP server to change to DST. > > Actually, no, I should have clarified. I have two separate master >clocks. The first is an NTP server, dedicated to the LAN. It has no offset >capability, and produces UTC time codes. It does not observe DST at all. > > The second master clock runs off the same GPS antenna, but has no >LAN capability. It takes in GPS code, and produces UTC, but it also outputs >an IRIG-B time code stream modulated onto a 1kHz audio carrier and you can >program that stream to be offset from UTC by however much you want. This >second clock is the one that I need to alter the DST dates on (it is >configurable for DST start and end dates) this year to accommodate the >extended period. > > I am, based on what I've learned in the past day or so, a bit >concerned about my computers. I don't think the Unix boxes will have >problems, but I'm concerned about the Windows systems since we're all >Win2000 Pro here (I will not, under ANY conditions, "upgrade" to XP or >Vista!) > > Keep the peace(es). > > >-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- >Bruce Lane, Owner & Head Hardware Heavy, >Blue Feather Technologies -- http://www.bluefeathertech.com >kyrrin (at) bluefeathertech do/t c=o=m >"If Salvador Dali had owned a computer, would it have been equipped with >surreal ports?" > > >_______________________________________________ >time-nuts mailing list >[email protected] >https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > > >_______________________________________________ >time-nuts mailing list >[email protected] >https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Bruce Lane, Owner & Head Hardware Heavy, Blue Feather Technologies -- http://www.bluefeathertech.com kyrrin (at) bluefeathertech do/t c=o=m "If Salvador Dali had owned a computer, would it have been equipped with surreal ports?" _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
