Happy DST!

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Well, I guess by tomorrow this time we'll all know if patch KB928388 worked . .
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Yeah, I agree. Here in Salt Lake City UT we're pretty paranoid about DST.
Let's just hope that this isn't another Y2K bug.

Well, I guess by tomorrow this time we'll all know if patch KB928388
worked . .
 
Sun said:
Click on time, advance 1 hour, done and forgot about.
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Unfortunately that's not sufficient: not only the time but the time
zone needs to be corrected. Your computer thinks you're on time UTC
minus 5 hours (Central Daylight Time), but based on your comment I
infer that you're actually in Eastern Daylight Time. So every email
you send and every article you post to Usenet has an incorrect time
stamp.

Example: your article was posted at 0754 your time, with a -0500 time
zone, meaning 1254 Universal time (formerly GMT); therefore according
to your timestamp you posted at 0854 Eastern Daylight Time. If you're
in Eastern Daylight time, your article was actually posted at 1154
UTC.

Everything you send will be dated an hour later than it was actually
sent, thus screwing up any threads that you and others post to. And
folks who reply promptly to your emails will be sending their replied
before you sent the emails they reply to.

See
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics/msg/4e0dbf7811bb27c5
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and use TZEDIT to fix your time zone.
 
....and in three weeks click it again and turn it back one hour. In the
fall do the same thing twice. Not exactly done and forgotten.

John
 
It worked fine in the Central time Zone :)
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Worked great for me in the Eastern Time Zone.
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to know I don't know a thing.
 
So, you don't know what time zone that any post originates from. Whether
one hour behind, or ahead, is inconsequential. Anyone can manipulate date
and time in windows or their bios, make a newsgroup post that is way off in
date and/or time. The news server only knows the date and time secured in
the post.
 
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