Re: Failed :-( Re: PC clock

From: Lars Enderin (lars.enderin_at_telia.com)
Date: 11/16/04 

Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 14:10:42 GMT

Jacques Guy wrote:
> Jacques Guy wrote:
>
>
>>Fine... enough hypothesizing. Let's test it.
>
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>
>>"Send"!
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>
> Well... what do you know?
>
> Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 00:50:51 -0800
>
> It didn't work.
>
> And here is the beginning of my AUTOEXEC.BAT file:
>
> @\BOOTWIZ\reinstal.com
> @ECHO OFF
> SET TMP=C:\TEMP
> SET TEMP=%TMP%
> SET PATH=C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;"E:\DiskKeep\"
> SET CAUSEWAY=NOVM
> SET TZ=EST-10EDT
> ?E:\RAMDISK\XMSDSK.EXE 6000 Z: /C1 /T /Y
>
> Oh, wait a minute... there is also an AUTOEXEC.WIN
>
> I'd never noticed the damn thing. Rather sparse, too,
> this is all there is to it:
>
> SET windir=C:\WINDOWS
> SET winbootdir=C:\WINDOWS
> SET COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM
> SET EUDIR=E:\EUPHORIA
> SET PATH=C:\WINDOWS;E:\EUPHORIA\BIN;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;D:\E\UTILS
> SET PROMPT=$p$g
> SET TEMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP
> SET TMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP
>
> I have just added SET TZ=EST-10EDT
>
> Bear with me once again. Side bets open.
>
> See you soon again.

Whatever you are doing to the Windows configuration files, I guess you
need to restart Windows to see any effects. Is there no direct method to
change the TZ via some icon or program (e g the Control Panel)?