New Daylight Savings Time

[whyun]

We have IT guys working on the work computersto handle the shift in the daylight savings time but how do you fix it on the home computer? I manually changed one hour forward but in April (when the old daylight savings kicks in), I have to go back one hour.

 

[MikeHalloran]

XP downloaded an update and made the correction with no intervention on my part.



Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

 

[michfan]

Go to:

http://support.microsoft.com/gp/cp_dst

and they have a wizard that walks you thru what system you have and what you need to update. If you don't do it, in about 2 weeks your system will be off again when the "old" dst kicks in.

By the way, it's daylight saving time, not savings...

 

[TheBlacksmith]

And any daylight saved will be wasted getting all the computers back in sync ...

 

[DaveVikingPE]

My Macs running OS 10.4 did the change automatically; I didn't even think about it. Same with all of our networked (XP) computers.

 

[ewh]

We had to install the microsoft patch, and all is well.

"Daylight Savings..." may not be the preferred phrase, but is recognized as an alternate per Meriam-Webster.

 

[epoisses]

blacksmith, what about your car, your microwave, your audio and video equipment and all the other stuff that can't seem to stick to its core business...

 

[whyun]

I will attempt the patch over the weekend. I just wanted to make sure others had no problems with the microsoft patch. My home computer is a stand-alone with only internet access and I am the IT guy of the household.

Time on my cell phone adjested to the DST automatically, so one less worry for me.

Thanks all.

 

[drawoh]

DaveVikingPE,

My Fedora Core_6 laptop at home switched to EDT correctly. I had to update the timezone files on my Fedora Core_3 desktop. There was an article on one of the Linux sites on how to do this, and I just followed it.

I have no idea of what happened to my Windows box at work, but it is showing the correct time.

JHG

 

[TheBlacksmith]

Change the cars, leave the black tape on the other devices. 10 minutes on high is enough to ruin most any food, whether the clock time is right or not!

 

[GMcD]

Or just wait two more weeks and everything will be fine.

 

[ctopher]

No problems here. Only had to change clocks at home and cars.

Chris
SolidWorks 07 3.0/PDMWorks 07
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 03-13-07)

 

[michfan]

I didn't bother with the patch on my computer at my store that we use as a cash register. I just set the clock ahead an hour and figured I'd get to the patch eventually.

On Saturday we were really busy and I kept thinking how it felt like a really long day and how much my feet hurt - we had one of the busiest days we've had since last fall, it was great!

My 18-yr old niece was in helping me and she had lent her car to my sister for the day, so she hung out til 6 when I could give her a ride home.

Her boyfriend called and asked when she'd be ready because they were gonna watch a game on t.v. She said she'd be to his house by 8 p.m.

At 6 we started to close up and a young couple slipped in with kids and I hate to turn away people with money to spend, so we just waited them out. Finally, about 6:20 they left and we closed up and got in my car. My dashboard clock read 7:30 by that time. Hmm, that's funny...I know I fixed THAT clock. Finally it hit me - I'd been going by the clock on the computer all day and hey, the sun was starting to set...I looked at her and yelled, CALL SOMEONE AND ASK WHAT TIME IT IS! She called her boyfriend back and said, hey, what time is it? He says, it's almost 7:40...how are you going to be ready by 8???

TOO FUNNY. We worked an hour longer than we should have - no wonder my feet were killing me! But we had a great day in sales so I guess that made up for it!

MORAL OF THE STORY...download the patch. It will make your life easier...

 

[PSE]

I had 23 computers to work through updates with so it took a bit of time. On several we still have to run older OSs due to the test programs and these are/were not supported by the patch. A basic pain but at least now I only have to deal with the legacy machines in the fall.

Regards,

 

[Ashereng]

On my computer, I don't use the automatic daylight saving feature. I just set the clock ahead/behind when the day comes (or when I remember ).

Sort of what I do with my mechanical watch.

I'm a bit low tech and old school.

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[whyun]

Ashreng. That was brilliant! Disabling the auto-DST feature. Why didn't I think of that.

 

[Ashereng]

Because you are not old?


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[MikeHalloran]

This laptop with FC4 accesses the Internet through a proxy. I couldn't get it to snag the critical file that's alleged to exist,

//elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2007c.tar.gz

by any means, e.g. wget, ftp, http, ... nothing.

No, I'm not going to upgrade; I had a hell of time squeezing FC4 into the 4.7Gb hard drive.

I love the stability, but any kind of change is like ... well, building a CP/M CBIOS was easier.





Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

 

[drawoh]

MikeHalloran,

I am surprised that wget does not work. Does your browser make http connections? If your browser does not understand tar.gz files, it will probably ask you if you want to save them, which is exactly what you want.

The instructions for this are up on Slashdot somewhere. It does not affect your disk space very much. Hopefully, your hardware clock is set to Greenwich Mean Time.

I am impressed that you got FC4 onto a 4.7Gb hard drive. My desktop's original 6Gb drive long ago turned into a backup device.

JHG

 

[MikeHalloran]

Wget didn't work because it was looking for the wrong file; the correct one is tzdata2007d.tar.gz as of Saturday when I finally figured out what was going on. All of the web pages on the subject point you to 2007c, which no longer exists. The error messages produced were, of course, even less helpful and more misleading than those from MS offal.


The FC4 CD install can fit in <3Gb, but the temporary files for a yum update won't also fit, not all at once. You can get most of the way through an update in 4.7Gb, but not all the way because of some interdependent large packages. Eventually, I figured out how to put the yum cache on a network share, and that made a complete update possible.



Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA