Incorrect Summer Times in Vista Clock

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As far as I can tell the Vista clock does not take into account that Great
Britain time is UTC+1 during the summer. It is currently showing UTC and
London time being the same.

Is there a setting I'm missing? I have my local time set as Pacific time and
UTC is off by one hour as it is using Great Britain time as UTC...

Any suggestions are much appreciated....

Russ
 
Russ41 said:
As far as I can tell the Vista clock does not take into account that Great
Britain time is UTC+1 during the summer. It is currently showing UTC and
London time being the same.

Is there a setting I'm missing? I have my local time set as Pacific time and
UTC is off by one hour as it is using Great Britain time as UTC...

Any suggestions are much appreciated....

Russ
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Try a different time server. I use 'time-a.nist.gov' and have no issues.
 
Rat River Cemetary said:
Try a different time server. I use 'time-a.nist.gov' and have no issues.
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Time servers operate exclusively on UCT/GMT. This would be a timezone
setting issue, or a bug in the software. Unless it is a rogue one.
 
Hi Russ,

Check your Time Zone Settings. In addition to setting the currect Time Zone,
make sure that 'Automatically adjust clock for Daylight Saving Time' is
checked, if it is available for your region. Also, ensure that you have got
the correct date and time. The time server should be able to correct your
time, but there is a limit as to how much it can correct it. If the
difference between your computer's time and the server's time exceeds a
certain amount then the required change is logged rather than corrected. This
is why it is essential for you to set the correct time manually to start off
with. If you wish to have your time updated daily instead of the default
weekly update, then you need to alter a setting in your registry - full code
for this tweak is given below. This sets the update interval to 86,400
seconds or 24 hours, which is 1 day.
Dwarf

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\TimeProviders\NtpClient]

"SpecialPollInterval"=dword:00015180
 
Russ41 said:
As far as I can tell the Vista clock does not take into account that Great
Britain time is UTC+1 during the summer. It is currently showing UTC and
London time being the same.

Is there a setting I'm missing? I have my local time set as Pacific time
and
UTC is off by one hour as it is using Great Britain time as UTC...

Any suggestions are much appreciated....
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You can try moving to a different time zone :o)
 
Little Billy said:
You can try moving to a different time zone :o)
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Thanks to all of you, but I guess I wasn't clear. The timezone settings have
London, Dublin etc (UK) as being GMT/UTC time. This is incorrect. Those
cities are GMT/UTC+1 during the summer. I'm looking for a way to correct
that. My machine is properly time synched with the DST setting checked....it
is an issue with the Great Britain time definition....

Thanks again,
Russ
 
Russ41 said:
As far as I can tell the Vista clock does not take into account that
Great
Britain time is UTC+1 during the summer. It is currently showing UTC
and
London time being the same.

Is there a setting I'm missing? I have my local time set as Pacific
time and
UTC is off by one hour as it is using Great Britain time as UTC...

Any suggestions are much appreciated....

Russ
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If you have Pacific Time set as your local time zone (GMT-8) you are
presumably seeing 'Great Britain Time' in an additional clock. If that
is the one labelled 'Greenwich Mean Time: Dublin' etc. then this is
adjusted for BST ( British Summer Time = UK DST ). If you really need
to see GMT make the additional clock's time zone the other GMT,
(Casablanca etc.) which does not get adjusted.

I have two clocks set at the moment -
1. 'Local time' = GMT and BST when appropriate, adjusted by the OS =
1130 A
2. 'GMT' = GMT in the GMT Casablanca, Monrovia, Reykjavik zone, no
adjustment = 1030 Z
in case my 'subtract one' brain cell is on strike :-)
No doubt I'll have a third clock if we are forced on to 'Euro Time'.

Regards
Tom
 
Tom Allen said:
If you have Pacific Time set as your local time zone (GMT-8) you are
presumably seeing 'Great Britain Time' in an additional clock. If that
is the one labelled 'Greenwich Mean Time: Dublin' etc. then this is
adjusted for BST ( British Summer Time = UK DST ). If you really need
to see GMT make the additional clock's time zone the other GMT,
(Casablanca etc.) which does not get adjusted.

I have two clocks set at the moment -
1. 'Local time' = GMT and BST when appropriate, adjusted by the OS =
1130 A
2. 'GMT' = GMT in the GMT Casablanca, Monrovia, Reykjavik zone, no
adjustment = 1030 Z
in case my 'subtract one' brain cell is on strike :-)
No doubt I'll have a third clock if we are forced on to 'Euro Time'.

Regards
Tom
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Thanks for that Tom,

Your method is probably the easiest method to make it work. I had hoped, but
not anticipated there was a setting I had missed someplace. I thought if
Windows can adjust for Pacific Daylight savings it could/should be able to do
the same for GB....oh well...nobody ever said Windows is perfect!!

Cheers,
-Russ
 
Russ41 said:
Thanks for that Tom,

Your method is probably the easiest method to make it work. I had
hoped, but
not anticipated there was a setting I had missed someplace. I thought
if
Windows can adjust for Pacific Daylight savings it could/should be
able to do
the same for GB....oh well...nobody ever said Windows is perfect!!

Cheers,
-Russ
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I think the point is that it is adjusting correctly but the result is
not what you want to see. As I understand it the Windows time zone
names are just labels for geographic areas which allow for
local/national time of day and for seasonal DST (i.e. North/South
hemisphere) and some special cases like those who don't tinker with
their clocks, but I could be wrong.

Tom
 
Hi Russ,

As far as I am aware, all Internet time servers transmit their information
as UTC (formerly known as GMT). The computer uses this information, together
with the information from your time zone settings (including the daylight
setting information where appropriate), to set the clock so that it displays
the correct time and date for your area. Some time zones do not use DST, and
they use the same settings all year round without changing it for summer and
winter. If you want to have a secondary clock that displays UTC (formerly
known as GMT), then you need to select a zone that uses UTC/GMT but does not
utilise DST (as explained by Tom).
Dwarf
 
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