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to: Frank Haber
from: John Beamish
date: 2007-03-12 14:36:02
subject: Re: [F]re[e]basing Your Timezone

From: "John Beamish" 

During the boot I repeatedly press F2, changed the time in the bios and
left it like that.  OK, I know ... in three weeks time I do the same thing
and unwind the hour.  But it worked.  Not too awkward.  And it worked.

On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 13:59:52 -0400, Frank Haber  wrote:

> Two out of three Win 98 machines here refused to register the timezone
> change even after *two* iterations of 'change timezone, apply, deselect
> autodaylight checkbox, apply, reselect your_tz, apply/OK, reboot.'  I
> set the time manually, and we'll see what happens in two weeks.
>
> One Win2kWS machine here needed the no-autodaylight/apply/reselect'
> juggle here before a simple tzedit patch of my home tz took.  No reboot
> needed. BTW, Outlook's never been the default mail client on any of
> these machines.
>
> I therefore question the need for reboots.  I'm starting to doubt any
> deterministic quality at all to any of these patches.  Maybe you DO need
> to burn the goat entrails, and apply the $4000.
>
> My WFWG 3.31 machine yielded nicely to an application of the resident
> command TIME at the command prompt.  Progress?  Faugh.

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