EWF and Automatically adjust clock for daylight saving

Richard Thomissen

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Nov 20, 2003, 2:54:13 AM11/20/03

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Hello,

I recently discovered a problem when using "Automatic adjust clock for
daylight saving" on a EWF protected machine. The image was sealed begin
October (Summertime). After October the 27th the problem occured (start of
wintertime). Everytime I power up the XPE machine, the RTC will be adjusted
by decreasing the time with 1 hour. Probably the system can not save a flag,
that the RTC has been adjusted due to the EWF image. Does anybody know an
elegant way to solve this problem?

Thanks in advance,
Richard Thomissen

BeeFarmer

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Nov 20, 2003, 7:57:54 AM11/20/03

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I believe the clock is a bios setting and not controlled on the EWF. Time
Zone however
isn't in the bios. Just my thoughts.
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Slobodan Brcin

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Nov 20, 2003, 8:03:45 AM11/20/03

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Elegant, alas no

Same problem here, I was posting possible solution to this in last few days.
But finally I found problem with solution that I can't overcome.

I'll post later complete up to date description of the problem.

Regards,
Slobodan

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Slobodan Brcin

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Nov 20, 2003, 9:03:52 AM11/20/03

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I don't think that I'll have time to gather all info in one place.

You can read following thread for informative purposes only:
http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=e9Lb0of
rDHA.648%40TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl

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Slobodan

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Doug Hoeffel (eMVP)

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Nov 20, 2003, 9:19:59 AM11/20/03

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Richard:

Search the archives of this NG. I have documented in the past a way to
handle this with EWF. It involves detecting the time change, committing to
disk, then rebooting. Maybe not elegant, but it works ;-)

HTH... Doug

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Doug G

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Nov 20, 2003, 11:23:45 AM11/20/03

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This has been an issue for our product for a long time. It is installed in a
factory setting with no mouse or keyboard. An older version ran on Win95 and
on that system it would bring up a dialog box asking if you wanted to change
the time. So on Monday after a time change the service people would get a
bunch of calls asking how to make the box go away.

With XP Embedded I told them the problem would be solved since it could
automatically do it without any message showing (I have balloon tips
disabled also). Then I decided to use EWF and ran into the
time-changing-an-hour-on-each-boot problem! Assuming that I can find the
newsgroup archives I'll take a look at Doug H's solution. Maybe we'll get
there yet!

Doug G

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