At a price of $4,000.00, wouldn’t it just be easier to manually change the time on each machine? I know that it’s nice to have it done automatically, but isn’t the manual option still there?
Read the article. The tool is free. It resets the dates. Manually changing the time doesn’t work on a network. I’ve tried it.
This little tool really works.
plus travel and expenses, of course.
Time is extremely important on a network. It's how all the servers keep synchronized. If you have a lot of servers on the network, it can be rather time consuming to make the changes. For instance, the company that I work for has a mix of Windows 2003 and Windows 2000 servers, but the vast majority of those servers are Windows 2000, which DID need to be updated manually. BTW, if you just reset the time on a workstation manually, when the "old" DST start/end comes along, it will change the time on your again.
Mark
Yes. Easy to do...but not all at the same time. Many other 3rd party applications depend on the time on the server to be correct...or at least synchronous. A difference of an hour can cause problems for automated backup and recovery software for instance. If the Admin waited until next day to change the time, the problems have already manifested themselves.