Change Daylight Saving Time Rules Easily In Windows 2000
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Some countries (most notably, the U.S., Canada, Uruguay, Brazil, Israel, Egypt, and Sri Lanka) have adopted different Daylight Saving Time rules or different time zones this year. If you use Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, or Windows Vista, you can get the patch either through Automatic Updates or Windows Update, but what if you have Windows 2000 or Windows 2000 Server? I created these Registry edits from the Microsoft Knowledge Base article (there is a script available there for multiple machine deployment) and they worked fine on my computer - you use them at your own risk.
USING THEM ON EARLIER VERSIONS OF WINDOWS IS AT YOUR OWN RISK and you should be on a more secure version of Windows anyways. There are no more security updates available from Microsoft for Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 98, and Windows 95. Copies of Windows 2000 are available cheaply on eBay - if your computer won’t run Windows 2000 you should buy a newer and faster computer.
UPDATE:
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Ken Kennedy
March 9th, 2007
at 10:10am
From the “Windows 2000 Professional Resources Kit”, I used tzedit.exe. It is easy to use and as far as I know it worked perfectly. The acid test comes on Sunday.
If you visit http://www.filewatcher.com/ and search for “tzedit”, it comes up with hits from http://ftp.tc.faa.gov/incoming/WIN98/tools/reskit/config/ among others.
kk
Marc Erickson
March 9th, 2007
at 11:14am
I tried tzedit.exe too. It takes longer and isn’t exactly intuitive - whereas the Registry edit works instantly and makes all changes required.