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by lafayette

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Does anyone know where Windows stores it's Time Zone Settings? I've got 108 pcs and my predecessor didn't seem to know what time zone he lived in (GMT -5:00) and quite a few of the pcs are set in different time zones. I was hoping there was a registry key I could change (RPC or scripts) but I was not able to find any differences using Windiff to compare a registry after a time zone change. Any ideas? Thanks.

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by curtis

The time zone information is stored in the registry key
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation. I would suggest that you go to a computer and set it to the correct time zone then export the key above to a floppy or wherever. Thenrun a batch file when the user logs on to merge the .reg file.
Hope this helps ...

by lafayette

Tried exporting the key and merging it to a registry. Doesn't work. Need to use the SetTimeZoneInformation API.

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