Why all of a sudden (recently) are lots of the usenet posted timestamps
wrong?

Something to do with the early daylight saving time change?

Andy

Andy wrote:
> Why all of a sudden (recently) are lots of the usenet posted
> timestamps wrong?
>
> Something to do with the early daylight saving time change?
>
> Andy

Computer clocks set incorrectly for their time zone? My computer clock
apparently doesn't like this Daylight Savings Time thing because it reset
itself back to regular time once since I changed it. I hasn't misbehaved
since I changed it back again, though. Why do we bother with this crap
anyway?

I'm in chat if you wanna go there and I DARE you to pinch me again!

Jill

On Mar 31, 5:16 pm, Andy <q> wrote:
> Why all of a sudden (recently) are lots of the usenet posted timestamps
> wrong?
>
> Something to do with the early daylight saving time change?

Don't know. My computer is set correctly to PDT. I posted something
a little while ago and Google Groups immediately showed it with a time
stamp an hour earlier. I am posting this at 7:23 PDT. -aem

jmcquown wrote:

> Andy wrote:
> > Why all of a sudden (recently) are lots of the usenet posted
> > timestamps wrong?
> >
> > Something to do with the early daylight saving time change?
> >
> > Andy
>
> Computer clocks set incorrectly for their time zone? My computer
> clock apparently doesn't like this Daylight Savings Time thing
> because it reset itself back to regular time once since I changed it.
> I hasn't misbehaved since I changed it back again, though. Why do we
> bother with this crap anyway?
>
> I'm in chat if you wanna go there and I DARE you to pinch me again!
>
> Jill

My computer clock reset itself an hour ahead.

Twice.

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"jmcquown" > wrote in message
...
> Andy wrote:
>> Why all of a sudden (recently) are lots of the usenet posted
>> timestamps wrong?
>>
>> Something to do with the early daylight saving time change?
>>
>> Andy
>
> Computer clocks set incorrectly for their time zone? My computer clock
> apparently doesn't like this Daylight Savings Time thing because it reset
> itself back to regular time once since I changed it. I hasn't misbehaved
> since I changed it back again, though. Why do we bother with this crap
> anyway?
>
> I'm in chat if you wanna go there and I DARE you to pinch me again!
>
> Jill
>

Regardless of which Windows OS you have, download TZEDIT.EXE and you can use
it to change your DST settings. Your problem will fix itself after 2:00am
tomorrow but it will not go back to standard time on the rightdate.

TZEDIT is a M$ applet, perfectly safe to use. Simply edit the time zone
dates. Close the app then manually chnge your time zone to some other one
to force the change. Then change it back to the proper one. Problem fixed.

Paul

>

Andy <q> wrote in :

> Why all of a sudden (recently) are lots of the usenet
> posted timestamps wrong?
>
> Something to do with the early daylight saving time change?

probably. *nix computers won't change until real DST.
lee <hates DST. doesn't need more of it>

"enigma" > wrote

> Andy <q> wrote

>> Why all of a sudden (recently) are lots of the usenet
>> posted timestamps wrong?
>>
>> Something to do with the early daylight saving time change?
>
> probably. *nix computers won't change until real DST.
> lee <hates DST. doesn't need more of it>

I don't know if this is true for anyone else. McAfee came out
with an update and suddenly my firewall wouldn't let my
internet time protocol update. I disabled my firewall and updated
my time. I thought it worked but I'm not sure. I look fine to me,
timewise. Feel free to tell me if I'm not posting correctly. It's 4:29pm
as I post.

nancy

Nancy Young wrote:

> I don't know if this is true for anyone else. McAfee came out
> with an update and suddenly my firewall wouldn't let my
> internet time protocol update. I disabled my firewall and updated
> my time. I thought it worked but I'm not sure. I look fine to me,
> timewise. Feel free to tell me if I'm not posting correctly. It's
> 4:29pm as I post.

Your posting time reads as 1:29pm in the pacific time zone, so if you're in
the eastern tz you're fine.

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"Dave Bugg" > wrote

> Nancy Young wrote:
>
>> I don't know if this is true for anyone else. McAfee came out
>> with an update and suddenly my firewall wouldn't let my
>> internet time protocol update. I disabled my firewall and updated
>> my time. I thought it worked but I'm not sure. I look fine to me,
>> timewise. Feel free to tell me if I'm not posting correctly. It's
>> 4:29pm as I post.
>
> Your posting time reads as 1:29pm in the pacific time zone, so if you're
> in the eastern tz you're fine.

Thanks so much, Dave.

nancy

On Sun, 1 Apr 2007 17:05:43 -0400, "Nancy Young" >
wrote:

>> Your posting time reads as 1:29pm in the pacific time zone, so if you're
>> in the eastern tz you're fine.
>
>Thanks so much, Dave.

I feel totally left out. Living in Arizona, I don't have any issues
with Daylight Savings Time. Except for the Navajo Nation in
northeastern Arizona, we don't have DST. :outing::

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"Zilbandy" > wrote in message

> On Sun, 1 Apr 2007 17:05:43 -0400, "Nancy Young" >
> wrote:
>
> > > Your posting time reads as 1:29pm in the pacific time zone, so if
> > > you're in the eastern tz you're fine.
> >
> > Thanks so much, Dave.
>
> I feel totally left out. Living in Arizona, I don't have any issues
> with Daylight Savings Time. Except for the Navajo Nation in
> northeastern Arizona, we don't have DST. :outing::
>
> --
> Zilbandy

You can have mine.

BOB
the day light saving time, not the 4 racks of ribs on the smoker

On Sun, 1 Apr 2007 17:40:47 -0400, " BOB" > wrote:

>Living in Arizona, I don't have any issues
>> with Daylight Savings Time. Except for the Navajo Nation in
>> northeastern Arizona, we don't have DST. :outing::

> You can have mine.
>
>BOB
>the day light saving time, not the 4 racks of ribs on the smoker

No thanks, but I'll take some ribs. ::grabbing my fork and hitting the
freeway::

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"Nancy Young" > wrote in
:

> I don't know if this is true for anyone else. McAfee came
> out with an update and suddenly my firewall wouldn't let my
> internet time protocol update. I disabled my firewall and
> updated my time. I thought it worked but I'm not sure. I
> look fine to me, timewise. Feel free to tell me if I'm not
> posting correctly. It's 4:29pm as I post.

well, according to your headers, your computer clock is
correct, but you NNTP posting host is an hour behind...

i put McAffe on my computer & it screwed *everything* up &
wouldn't allow me to even open one of my games. i had to
remove it, which "lost" a whole range of things on my C drive,
like Wordpad, the calculator & the games... fortunately i have
a complete mirror on my D drive so i just put shortcuts to
those programs pointing to D. but it's so annoying that
removing McAffee's took those things out too.
lee

Nancy Young wrote:

>
> "enigma" > wrote
>
> >Andy <q> wrote
>
> > > Why all of a sudden (recently) are lots of the usenet
> > > posted timestamps wrong?
> > >
> > > Something to do with the early daylight saving time change?
> >
> > probably. *nix computers won't change until real DST.
> > lee <hates DST. doesn't need more of it>
>
> I don't know if this is true for anyone else. McAfee came out
> with an update and suddenly my firewall wouldn't let my
> internet time protocol update. I disabled my firewall and updated
> my time. I thought it worked but I'm not sure. I look fine to me,
> timewise. Feel free to tell me if I'm not posting correctly. It's
> 4:29pm as I post.
>
> nancy

16:29 for me, reading it. I'm in the Central time zone.

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"enigma" > wrote

> "Nancy Young" > wrote

>> I don't know if this is true for anyone else. McAfee came
>> out with an update and suddenly my firewall wouldn't let my
>> internet time protocol update. I disabled my firewall and
>> updated my time. I thought it worked but I'm not sure. I
>> look fine to me, timewise. Feel free to tell me if I'm not
>> posting correctly. It's 4:29pm as I post.
>
> well, according to your headers, your computer clock is
> correct, but you NNTP posting host is an hour behind...

Did I mention you should be prepared to tell me how to fix it
since I've done everything I can think of already?

> i put McAffe on my computer & it screwed *everything* up &
> wouldn't allow me to even open one of my games. i had to
> remove it, which "lost" a whole range of things on my C drive,
> like Wordpad, the calculator & the games... fortunately i have
> a complete mirror on my D drive so i just put shortcuts to
> those programs pointing to D. but it's so annoying that
> removing McAffee's took those things out too.

Hmmm. My pc came with it installed. Thanks for the warning not
to uninstall it.

nancy

On Sun, 01 Apr 2007 14:35:37 -0700, Zilbandy
> wrote:

>On Sun, 1 Apr 2007 17:05:43 -0400, "Nancy Young" >
>wrote:
>
>>> Your posting time reads as 1:29pm in the pacific time zone, so if you're
>>> in the eastern tz you're fine.
>>
>>Thanks so much, Dave.
>
>I feel totally left out. Living in Arizona, I don't have any issues
>with Daylight Savings Time. Except for the Navajo Nation in
>northeastern Arizona, we don't have DST. :outing::

Count your blessings!

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On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 01:05:36 +0000 (UTC), enigma >
wrote:
>
>
> i put McAffe on my computer & it screwed *everything* up &
>wouldn't allow me to even open one of my games. i had to
>remove it, which "lost" a whole range of things on my C drive,
>like Wordpad, the calculator & the games... fortunately i have
>a complete mirror on my D drive so i just put shortcuts to
>those programs pointing to D. but it's so annoying that
>removing McAffee's took those things out too.


I don't see how McAfee gets away with it. I tried a McAfee product
that screwed up my computer too. I uninstalled it immediately, but I
don't think it took any other programs with it. Thank goodness

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<sf> wrote in message news
> On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 01:05:36 +0000 (UTC), enigma >
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> i put McAffe on my computer & it screwed *everything* up &
>>wouldn't allow me to even open one of my games. i had to
>>remove it, which "lost" a whole range of things on my C drive,
>>like Wordpad, the calculator & the games... fortunately i have
>>a complete mirror on my D drive so i just put shortcuts to
>>those programs pointing to D. but it's so annoying that
>>removing McAffee's took those things out too.
>
>
> I don't see how McAfee gets away with it. I tried a McAfee product
> that screwed up my computer too. I uninstalled it immediately, but I
> don't think it took any other programs with it. Thank goodness
>

AVG is the best, and free, too!

Andy wrote:
>
> Why all of a sudden (recently) are lots of the usenet posted timestamps
> wrong?
>
> Something to do with the early daylight saving time change?
>

I thought I was the only one having trouble. A month or two ago I was
having a hard time with new posts not appearing. There would be nothing for
12 hours or more, and then all of a sudden they came flooding in. For a
while last week I would click on a post and it would take a minute or two
for it to open. Then on Saturday I had a hard time connecting to the
service. yesterday I was getting serious lag times again.

cybercat wrote:
> <sf> wrote in message
> news
>> On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 01:05:36 +0000 (UTC), enigma >
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> i put McAffe on my computer & it screwed *everything* up &
>>> wouldn't allow me to even open one of my games. i had to
>>> remove it, which "lost" a whole range of things on my C drive,
>>> like Wordpad, the calculator & the games... fortunately i have
>>> a complete mirror on my D drive so i just put shortcuts to
>>> those programs pointing to D. but it's so annoying that
>>> removing McAffee's took those things out too.
>>
>>
>> I don't see how McAfee gets away with it. I tried a McAfee product
>> that screwed up my computer too. I uninstalled it immediately, but
>> I don't think it took any other programs with it. Thank goodness
>>
>
> AVG is the best, and free, too!

That's what I use. Free is good.

kili

in the us the time change and a lot of computers not being updated right with
fixes has caused the problem. We changed when dst starts earlier date this year
and it has reeked havoc internationally with computer clocks. Aussies changed
to dst this past weekend i think too.....
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"Dave Smith" > wrote in message
...
>
>
> Andy wrote:
>>
>> Why all of a sudden (recently) are lots of the usenet posted timestamps
>> wrong?
>>
>> Something to do with the early daylight saving time change?
>>
>
> I thought I was the only one having trouble. A month or two ago I was
> having a hard time with new posts not appearing. There would be nothing for
> 12 hours or more, and then all of a sudden they came flooding in. For a
> while last week I would click on a post and it would take a minute or two
> for it to open. Then on Saturday I had a hard time connecting to the
> service. yesterday I was getting serious lag times again.

On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 14:23:10 -0500, "kilikini"
> wrote:
>>
>> AVG is the best, and free, too!
>
>That's what I use. Free is good.
>
I also use AVG, but the McAfee product I used was similar to Norton
Dr. - which we had on a work computer and I liked.

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On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 13:40:03 -0700, sf wrote:

>>That's what I use. Free is good.
>>
>I also use AVG, but the McAfee product I used was similar to Norton
>Dr. - which we had on a work computer and I liked.

Norton and McAfee with their newer versions seem to use a lot of
resources. I used Norton for years, but switched over to AVG a couple
of years ago. So far, I'm happy with AVG free, and Kili is right...
free is good.

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"cybercat" > wrote in
:

> AVG is the best, and free, too!

i have a *nix firewall. my Linux box up & fried on me, & i've
been too lazy to put in a partition on this box. when i get
peeved enough at windoze i'll do it. i'd just use Linux but my
primary use for the computer is games <sigh>
lee

On Tue, 3 Apr 2007 00:39:52 +0000 (UTC), enigma >
wrote:
>
> i have a *nix firewall. my Linux box up & fried on me, & i've
>been too lazy to put in a partition on this box. when i get
>peeved enough at windoze i'll do it. i'd just use Linux but my
>primary use for the computer is games <sigh>

geeze, that's boring.


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sf wrote in :

> On Tue, 3 Apr 2007 00:39:52 +0000 (UTC), enigma
> > wrote:
>>
>> i have a *nix firewall. my Linux box up & fried on me, &
>> i've
>>been too lazy to put in a partition on this box. when i get
>>peeved enough at windoze i'll do it. i'd just use Linux but
>>my primary use for the computer is games <sigh>
>
> geeze, that's boring.

yeah, especially because i play mostly sims & in the
beginning it's easier to go off & do other stuff while the
little people start making enough gold/crops/trade items to do
anything interesting i'm waiting for the new Fool's
Errand... there aren't many good puzzle games.
i've done programming, way too many years of sys.admin, CS,
etc.
what do you use your computer for?

On Tue, 3 Apr 2007 17:26:21 +0000 (UTC), enigma >
wrote:

>sf wrote in :
>
>> On Tue, 3 Apr 2007 00:39:52 +0000 (UTC), enigma
>> > wrote:
>>>
>>> i have a *nix firewall. my Linux box up & fried on me, &
>>> i've
>>>been too lazy to put in a partition on this box. when i get
>>>peeved enough at windoze i'll do it. i'd just use Linux but
>>>my primary use for the computer is games <sigh>
>>
>> geeze, that's boring.
>
> yeah, especially because i play mostly sims & in the
>beginning it's easier to go off & do other stuff while the
>little people start making enough gold/crops/trade items to do
>anything interesting i'm waiting for the new Fool's
>Errand... there aren't many good puzzle games.
> i've done programming, way too many years of sys.admin, CS,
>etc.
> what do you use your computer for?

I'm not in the computer biz, so I don't get bored. I'd say it's
between usenet, email and work. At least work isn't spreadsheets and
all the other hohum stuff that make people run screeming from a
computer. Computers were a godsend for those of us who have to do
reports etc. I, for one, was happy to put my pen and typewriter
aside.

I love my computer and I love the internet. I'm always poking around
just for my own personal interests anwering.... whats, whys and
wheres, mostly. Well, hows too.... that would be mainly recipes.



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