FW: Romance Time (forwarded with permission)

[Peter Hullah]

The following URL gives the official Mickeysoft solution to changes in Australian
time zones this year.

http://www.microsoft.com/australia/support/timezone/2000.htm

To change any other timezone problems you have to edit the registry, modifying binary
values that I can't find any documentation on. But then that's Mickeysoft for you - can't
trust users to fix their bugs for them and won't do it for themselves.

Pete

PS Where did MS get "Romance Daylight Time" from anyway? Just another of their
we-dont-care-what-the-rest-of-the-world-has-as-a-standard-this-is-ours attitudes?

Alex LIVINGSTON wrote:

> At 18:49 +0200 2000-06-29, Antoine Leca wrote:
> >> > From: Tim Stratford [SMTP:TStratford at oneworldsoftware.com]
> >> > Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 10:44 AM
> >> > To:   'ado at elsie.nci.nih.gov'
> >> > Subject:      One quick question please....
> >> >
> >> > Dear Arthur David Olson,
> >> >       Today I was doing research concerning a time zone or aspect of time
> >> > called Romance Time.  The research is for one of our software customers
> >> > and we cannot find much pertaining to the subject at all.  Is their some
> >> > information which you could supply me about the subject or some resources
> >> > which I could further research?  Thank you very much for your time and
> >> > cooperation.
> >
> >'Romance' is the name used for Europe/Paris and Europe/Madrid
> >areas in the Windows time zone database.
> >
> >
> >Hope it helps,
> >
> >Antoine
>
> I'm sure someone'll tell me if this is initiating a discussion that is not
> relevant to the tz mailing list, but it involves keeping track of time on
> computers...
>
> I'm not a Windows afficionado, and I doubt I'll ever be, but the
> installation where I work now consists mostly of machines running one
> version of Windows or another (at this stage mostly Windows NT 4).
>
> As southeastern Australia (where I am) is starting daylight saving
> considerably earlier this year than hitherto, I was concerned to know how
> all our Windows boxes (especially our servers) could be made to behave
> civilly in this circumstance. I asked a colleage this week about whether a
> suitable patch or update from Microsoft (for NT) was possible, but he said
> only service packs, which require bringing down the machine, were issued.
> The only way we could see of getting around the problem was by setting the
> machines' time zone to "(GMT +11:00) Magadan, Solomon Is., New Caledonia"
> until the date when NT thinks daylight saving starts in our zone ("...
> Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne", from memory). Your (Antoine's) mention of
> "the Windows time zone database" makes me wonder whether that could be
> edited instead.
>
> I'd also be interested to know if anyone's worked out how to patch Mac OS's
> Date & Time control panel (presumably its 'cty#' resource) to effect the
> same adjustment.
>
> Thanks for your attention.
>
> --Alex
>
> _______________
> Alex LIVINGSTON
> Macintosh and Lotus Notes Support / Information Technology (IT)
> Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM)
> UNSW SYDNEY NSW 2052 / Australia
>
> Facsimile: +61 2 9931-9349 / Telephone: +61 2 9931-9264
> Time     : UTC+11---[last Mar. Sun.---UTC+10---[last Aug. Sun.---UTC+11---
>
> At midday today, Friday, June 30,
>   time since epoch (1-1-1 at 00:00:00) is
>     730300.5 days = 1999.49485616 average Gregorian years
>   time until 3rd millennium, 21st century, 201st decade, 2001st year is
>     184.5 days = .50514384 average Gregorian years

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