Problems w/ Automatic Adjust Clock for Daylight Saving Time

• Microsoft Schedule+ for Windows, version 7.0

SYMPTOMS

If you are on a network which operating system has the functionality of adjusting for changes in daylight savings time, there will be a problem if you also use the Automatically Adjust Clock for Daylight Savings Time Changes feature in Microsoft Windows 95, particularly if all workstations on the network are either not using Windows 95 or have disabled this feature in Control Panel, Date/Time, Time Zone tab.

If you allow the network operating system as well as Windows 95 to adjust for these changes, then you are no longer synchronized with the rest of the network and entries made into other users' schedules will be changed to try to adjust for this.

The following is an example of a Schedule+ problem that has been encountered:

Use Schedule+ to schedule meetings on a Novell network, running Windows 95 and Office 95. The other workstations are running Windows for Workgroups. The network operating system had adjusted all clocks on the system when there was a change between daylight saving time and eastern standard time. When the Windows 95 user was asked if he or she wanted to have Windows 95 automatically adjust for changing the clocks, the user chooses Yes. After this, all other schedules on the network that had meetings scheduled, prior to the time change, for 1:00 P.M. found that the time has now been changed to 2:00 P.M.

CAUSE

If the network operating system adjusts the time and then Windows 95 adjusts the time. The Windows 95 machine is no longer synchronized with the other machines on the network. It has actually had its time set back by one hour twice. The workstation appears to be in a different time zone than the rest of the machines. In an effort to synchronize the times, the scheduled appointment times change.

RESOLUTION

To avoid this problem, choose Date/Time from the Control Panel. In the Time Zone tab, disable Automatically adjust clock for daylight savings time changes.

MORE INFORMATION

If you click the question mark (?) on Automatically adjust clock for daylight savings time changes, you get an explanation of the feature as well as the following warning:

If you use more than on operating system, make sure that only one of then adjusts for daylight saving time.

Additional query words: 7.00 schedule plus daylight saving time network

Keywords : MailPCWSPlus
Version : WINDOWS:7.0
Platform : WINDOWS
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