No Spring Forward-No Fall Back
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02-04-2007, 07:13
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No Spring Forward-No Fall Back
Not Bird Stuff but hopefully useful
Congress passed the Energy Committee recommendation to allow an EDT Extended Daylight Time moving ahead the time 3 weeks to March 11 and back one week to Nov 4, 2007. This will be in effect for the United States and Canada, Mexico has not adopted the change. Somehow this is going to save millions of barrels of oil so they say. If you have the latest Operating System (OS),Vista or XP the registry within the OS will be corrected automatically during receipt and install of the patches and hotfixes. If you have Windows 2000 which receives these updates the patch will not be included as it is a non-security item. All other Microsoft OS'es will need to either be manually advanced by the system clock or use an update tool known as a file called TZedit.exe. There may be other fixes on the internet but I would caution about using these as they are an ideal way to introduce a virus. Microsoft has doubly protected this file since development so I feel it is very safe. There is another issue about Microsoft Outlook as far as appointment scheduling but I am not involved so didn't give it any attention. The TZedit.exe utility package can be downloaded at: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/914387/ Wade through all the garbage till about 2/3 down the page. There will be a step-by-step explanation as well. If you don't care to do this the computer time will need to be reset a couple times a year. If you have a business that is time stamped/dated things could get a little wild till things straighten out. Maybe the banks vault would open and close an hour earlier?? I don't know, we'll hear about them in the news. I don't know about Mac and Linux, possibly an issue there as well. bob janes, 87fc35, greenville, sc |
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