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Bill Blanton
"Rick Chauvin" <justask@nospamz.com> wrote in message news:erWETfCIJHA.4240@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
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> "Bill Blanton" <bblanton@REMOVEmagicnet.net> wrote in message
> news:eYM%23VE4HJHA.2296@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl
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>> Rick, I don't think your system is on daylight savings time? EST should
>> be GMT-400 during DST, and -500 when not.
>> It could be that he turned off the "auto adjust" and set his clock back
>> manually. The clocks right, but offset is off.
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> Hi Bill,
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> You are quite right on all counts Bill.
> I am in EST but as you said my computer is set GMT-0500 and yes I do have
> Auto Adjust turned off and always have set it manually the first of the
> year. I've done that since Win9x because back then it drove me crazy when
> auto adjust was on it would scramble my Desktop icons when it auto
> adjusted, and so out of habit right along had set my W2K/WXP that way too,
> and have been staying booted and posting with XP this year anyway. I
> assume XP/2K never scrambles desktop icons after an time auto adjust?
I've never seen XP scramble (or unscramble) desktop icons for that reason,
though I have a vague recollection of what you mention on some 9x systems.
On a side note if you have any volumes formatted as NTFS, the displayed
file timestamps will be adjusted when the time offset changes. NTFS stores
timestamps at UTC, and computes in the offset for the display.
> I just now check marked the box to Auto Adjust, and my time jumped
> ahead an hour which is incorrect, so I manually adjusted the clock back an
> hour but leaving the box checkmarked I hope this solves the problem.
I can't vouch for the clock -) , but the offset now looks good..
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> "Bill Blanton" <bblanton@REMOVEmagicnet.net> wrote in message
> news:eYM%23VE4HJHA.2296@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl
>
> [...]
>
>> Rick, I don't think your system is on daylight savings time? EST should
>> be GMT-400 during DST, and -500 when not.
>> It could be that he turned off the "auto adjust" and set his clock back
>> manually. The clocks right, but offset is off.
>
> [...]
>
> Hi Bill,
>
> You are quite right on all counts Bill.
> I am in EST but as you said my computer is set GMT-0500 and yes I do have
> Auto Adjust turned off and always have set it manually the first of the
> year. I've done that since Win9x because back then it drove me crazy when
> auto adjust was on it would scramble my Desktop icons when it auto
> adjusted, and so out of habit right along had set my W2K/WXP that way too,
> and have been staying booted and posting with XP this year anyway. I
> assume XP/2K never scrambles desktop icons after an time auto adjust?
I've never seen XP scramble (or unscramble) desktop icons for that reason,
though I have a vague recollection of what you mention on some 9x systems.
On a side note if you have any volumes formatted as NTFS, the displayed
file timestamps will be adjusted when the time offset changes. NTFS stores
timestamps at UTC, and computes in the offset for the display.
> I just now check marked the box to Auto Adjust, and my time jumped
> ahead an hour which is incorrect, so I manually adjusted the clock back an
> hour but leaving the box checkmarked I hope this solves the problem.
I can't vouch for the clock -) , but the offset now looks good..