Want WinXP not change Daylight Savings in 2k domain

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You should be able to just double click on your clock in the Systray.
Go to the Time Zone tab, & remove the checkmark from Automatically
Adjust.... toward the bottom.

Carol2

"KeithD." <keith_duckworth@hotmail.com(donotspam)> wrote in message
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>I know that this sounds strange, but I have a requirement for one WinXP
>PC to
> NOT change it's time when our Win2k DC's change their clocks to
> reflect
> daylight savings.
>
> Bottom line: When the servers change from Eastern Standard Time to
> Eastern
> Daylight Savings Time, I have one PC that must stay on Eastern
> Standard Time,
> and not get it's time changed from the DC's. Is there a way to
> prevent this
> from happening?
>
> One thought was to do a registry hack on the PC, and change the
> following
> parameter:
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\Parameters
>
> Type : REG_SZ
> Used to control how a computer synchronizes.
> NoSync = do not synchronize time
>
> Is this the way to go, or is there a GPO that I can implement? Or,
> would it
> be much simpler to change the clock setting on the desk top, and
> uncheck the
> option to "Automatically adjust clock for daylight saving changes?"
>
> What do you all think?