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From: a on 25 Jan 2010 21:26 If I double-click the time on my Win XP Pro machine, and then select the "Time Zone" tab, the option to adjust the clock for DST is not there. ("automatically adjust clock for daylight saving changes"). Why has it disappeared, and how can I bring it back? Thanks for reading.
From: a on 25 Jan 2010 21:55 "Mike Easter" <MikeE(a)ster.invalid> wrote > Do you think your question is of such burning importance that you need to crosspost it to 3 different groups? It's called casting a wide net to catch a bigger audience. > There are a few timezones such as Arizona time and your current +11 setting which do not have/use daylight time, so that option is > removed when you set for those time zones. If you select a timezone offset which actually *has* daylight time, then the feature > will reappear. I've tried setting different zones but it never re-appears. > If you select a +10 setting, for example, you will see the option reappear. No, it didn't.
From: richard on 25 Jan 2010 22:51 On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:26:47 +1100, a wrote: > If I double-click the time on my Win XP Pro machine, and then select the > "Time Zone" tab, the option to adjust the clock for DST is not there. > ("automatically adjust clock for daylight saving changes"). Why has it > disappeared, and how can I bring it back? Thanks for reading. Now I'm just being curious. Does australia use DST? What would happen if you set the time zone say to US Eastern? I'll bet it becomes available.
From: PA Bear [MS MVP] on 26 Jan 2010 01:47 From your post's headers: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 Check in at http://update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate & install the scores of updates the computer needs. Follow all prompts & reboot. Any different now? What anti-virus application or security suite is installed and is your subscription current? What anti-spyware applications (other than Defender)? What third-party firewall (if any)? Has a(another) Norton or McAfee application ever been installed on the computer (e.g., a free-trial version that came preinstalled when you bought it)? Do you use Registry cleaners? a wrote: > If I double-click the time on my Win XP Pro machine, and then select the > "Time Zone" tab, the option to adjust the clock for DST is not there. > ("automatically adjust clock for daylight saving changes"). Why has it > disappeared, and how can I bring it back? Thanks for reading.
From: VanguardLH on 26 Jan 2010 03:26
a wrote: > Mike Easter wrote: > >> Do you think your question is of such burning importance that you need to crosspost it to 3 different groups? > > It's called casting a wide net to catch a bigger audience. No, it's called shotgunning (for the effect you note). It also means you haven't a clue where to post so you just scatter it everywhere. If you are unwilling to find and decide on an appropriate newsgroup, why would anyone else give any more consideration to your post than you did? Different posters have different thresholds as to what they consider EXCESSIVE cross-posting. My threshold is at 4; however, I simply kill file anyone posting to 4, or more, groups so I wouldn't see their posts to notify them that shotgunning means their post is unimportant because THEY decided it was unimportant (by not employing any initiative of their own to pick a valid newsgroup). Some users' threshold is down at 3, and some even down to 2 (i.e., they don't believe cross-posting is ever applicable). The more newsgroups you add, the more likely that your post is off-topic to some of them. There are some newsgroups that are duplicates of each other, like microsoft.public.outlook and microsoft.public.outlook.general, so including both of them is okay. The more groups you add, the more likely your post is off-topic or will irritate other posters due to your excessive cross-posting. Once you get 4, or more, groups listed, it becomes very likely that they are UNRELATED groups. My recollection of netiquette is that 4 groups, or more, is considered excessive. It might be more than 4 groups but my experience shows that when they reach 4 then one of the groups is unrelated to the others (of course, not always true but a typical experience). |