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echo: nthelp
to: waldo kitty
from: Geo.
date: 2007-03-11 22:57:04
subject: Re: win98 and DST changes - snafu

From: "Geo." 

You need to reboot after running the patch.

Geo.

"waldo kitty"  wrote in message
news:Xns98F0A678B4397me42{at}216.144.1.254...
>
> 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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