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To: TomGuy
That will mess up every pre-programmed computer chip in every device currently 'timed' to adjust to daylight savings.

On Novell servers, the start and stop day and times are just server variables, so it's no big deal. The use UTC for the time anyway, and the local time is just computed from the time zone and DST if needed.

On the other hand, does anyone know if this is just a registry setting change on Windows servers? How about with UNIX and Linux servers?

Mark

51 posted on 10/29/2005 9:28:43 PM PDT by MarkL (I didn't get to where I am today by worrying about what I'd feel like tomorrow!)
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To: MarkL
On the other hand, does anyone know if this is just a registry setting change on Windows servers? How about with UNIX and Linux servers?

Registry on Windows. UNIX systems and Windows programs using stdio will update the timezone environment variable. No big deal Most vendors will send out support patches that will fix it months before it is necessary.

109 posted on 10/30/2005 1:51:39 PM PST by Myrddin
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