From: waldo kitty 


has anyone else had problems with their win98 boxen and the free DST patch
from intelliadmin.com? i downloaded the patch and ran it on all the win98
boxes we have here and none of them appeared to make the switch...

but (you knew there was going to be one, right?) this may be complicated by
all our machines using AboutTime v4.8 to sync with NIST over the
internet... i either get them to go an hour behind (stay in EST) or they go
an hour too far forward...

i had to adjust my TZ environment variable on my OS/2 server to get it to
get right when syncing with NIST but the windows boxes still go off to the
wrong time when AboutTime is set to sync with the OS/2 server...

i've also an old mandrake (v7.1, IIRC) box that i have to manually update
the time in the BIOS... it has the correct time and when i tell the windows
boxes to sync to it, they get the proper time whether the intelliadmin
patch is installed or not...

however (!) if i tell that mandrake box to sync with NIST, it, too, gets
the wrong time (stays in EST)... of course, this effects all the boxen set
to sync with it...

i guess my real question is this... has NIST fallen down on the job?? maybe
i need to be looking elsewhere on how to fix up the mandrake box as it
appears to have the same problem the windows boxen do??

my eyes are so crossed from all this mess that i'm looking out thru opposite ears :(

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