SP2 EWF and Daylight Savings

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Does anyone know if there is an elegant way in SP2 to support daylight
savings with EWF RAM enabled without having to write code?

Are people just disabling daylight savings support with EWF?

Thanks,
Tim
 
Tim,

There is no elegant way that I know of :-(

You have few options:
1. Use network time server.
2. Use you custom shell/program and write it in a way to always convert time
from GMT to local time when showing it. (daylight disabled)
3. Write program that will detect daylight change and commit and reboot OS.
(Very bad idea)

Regards,
Slobodan
 
Hi Doug,
Why exactly is 3 a bad idea?
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Well what if you are doing some 24/7 hour process control?
You would stop that on minute or so two times a year just for reboot?

My guess is that customers usually want their systems running infinitely
without reboot (unless higher power intervene).

regards,
Slobodan
 
I guess it's a requirements thing ;-) My box it not on 24x7.

With my product, I've never heard a complaint of possibly 2 reboots a year.
Most don't even notice it.

.... Doug
Slobodan Brcin (eMVP) said:
Hi Doug,
Why exactly is 3 a bad idea?
Click to expand...

Well what if you are doing some 24/7 hour process control?
You would stop that on minute or so two times a year just for reboot?

My guess is that customers usually want their systems running infinitely
without reboot (unless higher power intervene).

regards,
Slobodan
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I guess it's a requirements thing ;-) My box it not on 24x7.

Yup. Although it would be nice if MS obsolete this problem by completing the
implementation of universal time. You might remember that I have tried this
undocumented registry key and that if work perfectly with one major flaw.
In intervals of hour or two before or/and after time change some service go
into the infinite loop and try to change time in CMOS but since in this mode
function is disabled it try this infinitely and system is almost frozen.
Except this bug this would solve all our problems.

Just it would be nice if someone from MS would bother to find this probably
simple problem and fix it, all would be much easier for us.

Regards,
Slobodan
 
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