New Daylight Savings Time
New Daylight Savings Time
(OP)
We have IT guys working on the work computersto handle the shift in the daylight savings time but how do you fix it on the home computer? I manually changed one hour forward but in April (when the old daylight savings kicks in), I have to go back one hour.





RE: New Daylight Savings Time
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
RE: New Daylight Savings Time
http://support.microsoft.com/gp/cp_dst
and they have a wizard that walks you thru what system you have and what you need to update. If you don't do it, in about 2 weeks your system will be off again when the "old" dst kicks in.
By the way, it's daylight saving time, not savings...
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"Daylight Savings..." may not be the preferred phrase, but is recognized as an alternate per Meriam-Webster.
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Time on my cell phone adjested to the DST automatically, so one less worry for me.
Thanks all.
RE: New Daylight Savings Time
My Fedora Core_6 laptop at home switched to EDT correctly. I had to update the timezone files on my Fedora Core_3 desktop. There was an article on one of the Linux sites on how to do this, and I just followed it.
I have no idea of what happened to my Windows box at work, but it is showing the correct time.
JHG
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Chris
SolidWorks 07 3.0/PDMWorks 07
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 03-13-07)
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On Saturday we were really busy and I kept thinking how it felt like a really long day and how much my feet hurt - we had one of the busiest days we've had since last fall, it was great!
My 18-yr old niece was in helping me and she had lent her car to my sister for the day, so she hung out til 6 when I could give her a ride home.
Her boyfriend called and asked when she'd be ready because they were gonna watch a game on t.v. She said she'd be to his house by 8 p.m.
At 6 we started to close up and a young couple slipped in with kids and I hate to turn away people with money to spend, so we just waited them out. Finally, about 6:20 they left and we closed up and got in my car. My dashboard clock read 7:30 by that time. Hmm, that's funny...I know I fixed THAT clock. Finally it hit me - I'd been going by the clock on the computer all day and hey, the sun was starting to set...I looked at her and yelled, CALL SOMEONE AND ASK WHAT TIME IT IS! She called her boyfriend back and said, hey, what time is it? He says, it's almost 7:40...how are you going to be ready by 8???
TOO FUNNY. We worked an hour longer than we should have - no wonder my feet were killing me! But we had a great day in sales so I guess that made up for it!
MORAL OF THE STORY...download the patch. It will make your life easier...
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Regards,
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Sort of what I do with my mechanical watch.
I'm a bit low tech and old school.
"Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater."
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RE: New Daylight Savings Time
RE: New Daylight Savings Time
"Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater."
Albert Einstein
Have you read FAQ731-376 to make the best use of Eng-Tips Forums?
RE: New Daylight Savings Time
//elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2007c.tar.gz
by any means, e.g. wget, ftp, http, ... nothing.
No, I'm not going to upgrade; I had a hell of time squeezing FC4 into the 4.7Gb hard drive.
I love the stability, but any kind of change is like ... well, building a CP/M CBIOS was easier.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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I am surprised that wget does not work. Does your browser make http connections? If your browser does not understand tar.gz files, it will probably ask you if you want to save them, which is exactly what you want.
The instructions for this are up on Slashdot somewhere. It does not affect your disk space very much. Hopefully, your hardware clock is set to Greenwich Mean Time.
I am impressed that you got FC4 onto a 4.7Gb hard drive. My desktop's original 6Gb drive long ago turned into a backup device.
JHG
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The FC4 CD install can fit in <3Gb, but the temporary files for a yum update won't also fit, not all at once. You can get most of the way through an update in 4.7Gb, but not all the way because of some interdependent large packages. Eventually, I figured out how to put the yum cache on a network share, and that made a complete update possible.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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The best way to do updates on a Linux desktop is to acquire the latest media CD or DVD and do a new install. I did an update on a Red Hat desktop a long time ago, and while it worked, I was not happy with the results. Yum updates are a good idea on an internet server, but I see little point on a desktop, particularly one that is working properly.
I have a Three Hour rule. In three hours, I can reformat the hard drive, re-install Linux and have everything working perfectly. I refuse to spend three hours trying to fix something. This is possible because...
- I have the media DVD.
- I took notes last time I installed it.
- My user files are on a separate partition.
- I don't do updates. Updates are complicated to keep track of, and I doubt they can be repeated within my three hour limit.
I have not had a disaster lately. I used to have a machine I eventually realized had a flakey power supply. Never was so much grief and frustration cured by the expenditure of ten bucks. I have been hacked once. When the installer asks if you want the firewall, say "Yes".JHG
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I maxed out the RAM and bought a hardware modem and a supported NIC, but that's my limit. I'll get a better laptop when one of my kids throws one out.
In the meantime, it's a learning experience, and a challenge to keep my brain from turning to mush while I'm between jobs.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA