DST Problems

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Mark D. VandenBerg

In Vista Build 5384.4:

When I left-click once on the clock in the system tray, a window opens that
has a hyperlink at the bottom that says "Date and time settings" and when I
click on that, a window opens and about 7/8ths down the window is a line of
text that says "Daylight Saving Time:" and then under that in a textbox it
says "The clock automatically adjusts for Daylight Saving Time."

The "clock" in the sidebar is merely a gadget that redisplays the system
time.

There has been talk of an issue with this build of Vista changing the system
time if the time zone is changed at the first run after installation, and
apparently this bug has been addressed and no longer appears in Build 5456.
I did experience this bug, manually changed the time to the correct time and
reported the bug.

When you manually changed the time, you changed the system time, which
naturally would affect any other method of displaying the time, including
another operating system, and probably your BIOS as well.
 
When I click on the clock in the notification area to bring up the date &
time properties it says that the clock does not support. I then checked all
the clocks available in the sidebar and none of them support DST. When I
manually force an internet time update, the clock restes without DST
applied.

This is where it really gets screwy... When I shut down Vista and log into
XP, the time there is one hour off and I have to reset it, and in XP, DST is
working.

The computer is an AMD XP 1900+ with 768MB of RAM and a NVIDIA GeForce2 Ti
with 64MB RAM. XP is installed on the physical drive 0 (C: Drive) and Vista
Beta 2 is installed on physical drive 1 (D: Drive)

I've only seen one post about DST problems and one of the responses said
that Beta 2 = DST... It sure doesn't seem like it on my PC. Has anyone
else seen this?

Why would the lack of DST in Vista effect the time in XP?

Thanks,
David
 
Thanks Mark,

I did a quick search and read a little on 5456. Looks like it's a fairly
decent improvement over Beta 2. I guess it's not available to the gereral
masses?

David
 
CoffeeFanatic said:
Thanks Mark,

I did a quick search and read a little on 5456. Looks like it's a
fairly decent improvement over Beta 2. I guess it's not available to
the gereral masses?
Click to expand...

The DST problem is still in 5456. While it is overall a snappier build,
many of us are finding Explorer extremely unstable (it crashes every
minute or so) or other driver issues are causing nightmares. I wouldn't
lose sleep over not getting access to it.
 
Thanks for correcting me about the DST issue, Mike. I thought I had read a
post here that said the bug had been addressed.
 
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