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Time Zone error?

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by jon

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If anyone else is having issues with the daylight saving time changes could you tell me what you did to fix it. I have a network of somewhere over a 100 computers. My network runs off a corporate headquarters not in this state. I have a script that runs that mounts drives and syncs the time with the DC's time upon login. The DC has the correct time, and the script is running and logging as successful, but still i have client machines with the time one hour behind. I do not want to manually edit the registry on each and every computer that is having this error. Also, they frown upon any person other than the main IT manager at the corporate office giving the okay to adjust a reg file. I was wondering what if any means there are to fix the date through ad or even a ou policy? And not everyone is having the timing error, how many i'm not sure though i keep getting more emails as the day progresses.
Thanks,

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by lowlands

Why are these workstations having the wrong time? Is it because they're in the wrong timezone or because they didn't adjust to the time change last weekend? The fix will depends on the problem. if the time service is running on the workstations, they should sync their time with the DC, and there shouldn't be any need to so that in a logon script.

by jon

they are in the correct time zone, and the only computers having the issues are older NT machines, that they do not want me to upgrade to xp. I did go to individual machines, and manually changed time settings. they changed right back during sync with the DC, I set to not automate to the time change. This does not seem right. I know that last year there was a conference that decided that the day daylight savings would occur on would change. There is an update for xp machines thats why they are not having a problem. I think i'm going to have to right my own regedit and then replace each machines time settings regkey
Thanks for any ideas or help

by lowlands

tzedit.exe on your NT4 machines. Once you've changed it on one, save the registry keys and import them on the others

by computercookie

time change or a new start time.

If you have a new time start tie I'd suggest MS didn't release or you didn't get the 'Hotfix' for NT.

by jon

I had that prevously installed, and i didn't want to do individual machines, but i guess that's how it's going to be done.
Thanks for all the ideas

by dumphrey

But I found this KB
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/914387/
And created a batch file(s) that ran on boot and fixed the issue. note: at one point the MS editor missed some wording and the English TZ data is labeled incorrectly. But its easy enough to figure out as you go through.

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