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 ============ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > 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 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) > > iEYEARECAAYFAlFN3QIACgkQ22kkGnnJQAwXcQCfecSf69PAckTtmjDMCrNB/lWr > Fk0AnjQpynN3/uK+qKbYlX4njLNnZBk8 > =ziSq > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.