Scripts Have Been Updated
Since this article was posted, Chang Lu has updated his scripts. The new scripts update the daylight saving time settings in 12 time zones, just like the recently released February 2007 cumulative time zone update patch from Microsoft. You can find Chang's new scripts in the NewScriptPackage.zip file, which you can download by clicking the "Download the Code Here" link. (This file will be inside the 95092.zip file.) In NewScriptPackage.zip, you'll find a READ ME file explaining the changes in the scripts.
Like the original scripts, the new scripts work on all the Windows platforms mentioned in the article. However, with the new scripts, machines that have been updated once don't need to be updated again if the users move to a different time zone. All the users need to do is to select the new time zone in the machine's Date and Time Properties dialog box and they're covered.
By now, most IT professionals are aware of the daylight saving time changes that will take effect starting this year as a result of the Energy Policy Act passed by the U.S. government in August 2005. The Energy Policy Act changes the start and end dates of daylight saving time. This year, daylight saving time starts three weeks earlier (2 A.M. on March 11) and ends one week later (2 A.M. on November 4) compared with last year. . . .
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cmarkley February 27, 2007 (Article Rating: