Locality Switch

Daylight savings starts this Sunday morning in NSW, and that means one thing: Clock nightmare in radio land!

Last year, I spent all of the Saturday morning before hand checking registry settings on each computer to make sure they would adjust appropriately come Sunday morning. That isn’t a very efficient way to spend an entire morning, but it had to be done to make sure funny things didn’t happen to our overnight programs and everything played at the correct time.

This year, everything has been made so much easier for me. See, I found this utility called TZEdit. (Downloadable from onlinecomputertips.com)

I can confirm that this utility works on both Windows XP and Windows Server 2008. I can’t say anything about other operating systems, but I suspect that it will work for Vista and Windows 7, too (they have a similar codebase to Server 2008).

This utility allowed me to confirm that each computer had the daylight savings times set correctly for our time zone (starting on the First Sunday of October at 2am).

Now I can sit back and relax, knowing that my computers should drift through daylight savings without a worry. The only thing I need to remember is to not to put anything into the 2am hour, as that will be skipped. Apart from that, it’s all sweet.

Now would be a great time for you to check all of your computers for Daylight Savings compatibility. Don’t leave it until the last minute.