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2007 time zone update - windows 2000

Homerboy

Homerboy

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So as all (or many I guess) of you may know MS has released hotfixes for the DST change on March 13th for XP and Server 2k3 and Vista, but not Windows 2000 as its past its hotfix window.

The fix they give is a pain in the butt but I was thinking Do I even need to apply this fix?
All of our workstations (mix of XP and 2k) sync their time on login to the Novell Server (which in turn is syncing every 15secs to a time server) If the Novell server has the correct date and time, would that not in turn be passed down to all the workstations?

I have distributed the XP hotfix via WSUS so those machines are fine. Its the 2k machines (the majority here) that are in question.

Thanks.
 
Timezones are applied locally, so syncing with a Novell server won't fix the problem. I don't know how Novell time sync works, but I'm assuming it's just an NTP server. NTP will always sync using UTC, and then the timezone would be applied locally by each machine.

So your clients will be synced to the server using UTC, but then they will still have the wrong timezone, so the time will appear to be off by an hour.

The 2000 manual fix (TZEdit) can be scripted (I believe there is an example in the KB article).

You don't have to fix the DST problem, you could just try to educate the users that their clocks will be off for two weeks in March. Then you would have until October to get the patches out. But since you already pushed out the XP fix, you can't really ignore the problem anymore. Having a mix of patched and unpatched machines will be a mess.
 
thanks Stash... I thought of the UTC/GMT problem after I posted this. Which makes sense.
Ah well

and to Joemonkey.... F off.
 
Originally posted by: Homerboy
Originally posted by: sm8000
I don't think he meant it personally. Chill.
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haha sorry I know him personally. I didn't REALLY mean the "F off"
Trust me I've said much worse to him
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i still cried a little inside

btw... motorboat
 
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