For some reason, I always had trouble with the XP time service so I
disabled it and added a different NTP demon. I never had another problem.
As I understand it, NTP never does DST changes. That's up to your OS to
handle. I live in an area that doesn't do DST changes so I've never had
to deal with it - other than dealing with some WWVB clocks that don't
let you disable DST!
Ed
On 3/23/2013 11:02 AM, J. Forster wrote:
Thank you.
My question is really does NIST time change to DST. I'm completely happy
with manually changing the time twice a year by hand. I'm trying to see if
disabling the auto-update fixes the problem. Resetting a clock is not
exactly a major task.
I have no interest in going to Vista or Windows 7 or anything else. If it
ain't broke, don't fix it.
I made the mistake of clicking a link and 'upgrading' RealPlayer and the
new version takes hugely more resources, crashes all the time, has loads
of 'features' of zero interest, and I cannot even find out how to
uninstall the bloatware, without losing saved files.
YMMV,
-John
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On 23/03/2013 14:50, Jim Lux wrote:
It wouldn't surprise me that XP doesn't have an accurate table of
this, since that would be one of the casualties of "being past
support EOL" although the KB entries I link below indicate that
they ARE still providing updates for XP. There are a lot of
places where timezones can go wrong because it's all stored in the
registry and there have been updates over the years that are
incremental and others that purport to be monolithic, etc.
XP is still up to date with timezone changes as far as I am aware but
you will need to ensure all (including optional) updates are
installed, and that may only be possible with an enterprise support
contract now.
If all else fails, you can disable automatic timezone updates with the
following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation
DisableAutoDaylightTimeSet REG_DWORD (1 = disable daylight-savings
adjustment, 0 or not set = enable adjustment)
Not sure if third party software can keep you in the right zone then,
but I'd imagine so.
Really though the correct fix is to upgrade to Windows 7. It's stable,
works well, and will be supported for years to come; though if you
want long term stability/updates you're better off looking into Linux
systems.
Cheers,
James Harrison
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