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Default Speaking of computer crap...

On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:57:40 -0500, Vic Smith
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On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:46:00 -0700, jps wrote:

On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:07:10 -0500, Vic Smith
wrote:

XP, latest service pack. SP3 I think.
The darn time sometime flips an hour one way or another.
Saw it keeping time an hour ahead about a week ago, so unchecked the
"adjust for daylight savings" box to get it right.
Now I just noticed it was an hour behind, and checking the box fixed
it. It don't make sense.

--Vic


Microsoft published a patch each year. Have a look he

http://support.microsoft.com/gp/cp_dst


Thanks, downloaded that. Still doesn't make sense though, since we're
not close to going off DST.

--Vic


It's screwy. I think you're supposed to enable the computer figure it
out once the patch is installed.