Re: Updating workstations for DST

Rich U wrote:

So if we update all of our workstations with the PDC for time and date every 4 hours, and we update the PDC and all servers, do we really need to mess with all the workstations with the patch for DST?

I'm not certain, but I believe the workstations only update GMT time from the PDC. If you haven't changed the timezone settings, the GMT time will be correct but the local time will be wrong. (Or, depending on what you do on the PDC, the local time will be correct but the GMT time will be wrong. This could cause you problems.)

If you think about it, there's no reason why the PDC and the clients have to be in the same time zone - so you can't expect time zone changes to be synchronised.

Harry.
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