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WA8LMF Home Page | Updated 24 June 2008 |
| U.S. Daylight Time now starts 3 weeks
earlier than the traditional date (1st week of March instead of beginning in April), effective
the year 2007. As a result, the automatic time change feature in Windows won't
happen until 3 weeks after the fact. The patches below will fix
Windows to change on the proper dates.
These patches only affect the Windows operating system itself. If you use Outlook, another patch (available from Microsoft) is required. Outlook keeps time internally in UTC and converts to local time only for display, using a routine similar to, but separate from, the one in Windows itself. Note that an intractable problem remains because MS grouped the US and Mexico together in the time zone select dialog in Windows (for example, "US Pacific and Tijuana, Mexico"). Since Mexico, unlike Canada, didn't slavishly follow the U.S. in this daylight time change idiocy, either you patch Windows and the U.S. west shows correctly and Mexico doesn't. Or you don't patch to keep Mexico correct and the U.S. incorrect by an hour. This nuisance will only persist for three weeks until the classic date for daylight change. At this point both the US and Mexico will be on daylight time, allowing the same offset to be correct for both. |
2007 Daylight Time Fix for
Windows 2000 & XP
This update (courtesy of
http://www.intelliadmin.com, a vendor of corporate network management
software), fixes the daylight time change issue.
Note that after installing this patch, you will have to reset the time, using an
Internet utility or other means. This forces Windows to re-compute the
offset between UTC time (which the operating system uses internally) and the
local time zone (which used for on-screen display).
2007 Daylight Time Fix for Windows 98 and ME Another freebie from http://www.intelliadmin.com, similar to the one above, but for Win 98 and ME.
2007 Daylight Time Fix for Windows XP (The "official" Microsoft XP Patch)
(or download this patch directly from Microsoft by clicking here)
AGW Packet Engine 2005-127 Installer
APRS-Emergency_Full-Ver-1.11.exe (Plug-In for UI-View)
APRS-Emergency-Ver-1.20-Update
APRS symbols for UIpoint-RevH.zip
APRS symbols for UIview-RevH.zip
APRS Symbols for APRSplus-RevH.zip
CheckSR-Setup.exe Checks Sound Card Sample Rate
ComDisable.msi Disables enumeration of serial port devices at boot on
Windows PCs. Prevents mouse cursor from going nuts
when PC is booted with a serial GPS device connected.
KLM-27el-UHF-BandPass-Yagi-Manual.pdf
NWSget_SETUP.EXE
This is KC9XG's NWS-Get plug-in for UI-View
that downloads NWS radar images into UIview,
repackaged as a standard "Setup.EXE" fully-
automated Windows installer.
Pos2NMEA-1.40.exe
Hard-to-find UIview plugin.
Extracts single call sign from UIview stations list,
converts to standard NMEA format and outputs it to
a virtual COM port for use by any standard GPS-
driven mapping program.
PA7RHMsvr106b.exe This is the
previous version of the PA7RHM
Mapserver for UIview32. The current version
is broken and won't save maps to local drive.
TNC2_Alignment.PDF (from BuxComm/PacketRadio.com)
Tone-Keyed_Soundcard_Interface.PDF
UIview_CMD_Files.zip for TM-D700, TM-D710 & TS-2000
Verizon-Cellphones-As-Modems.pdf
Win2000_Services_Information_REV4.pdf (from defunct BlackViper.com domain)
WinXP_Services_Information_REV4.pdf (from defunct BlackViper.com domain)
The Black Viper domain seems to be back online as of mid-March
2007. Latest
online versions of these documents are here:
Windows XP and 2000 Services Guides
Many of the files linked above are in Acrobat Portable Document File (.PDF) format. The free Adobe Acrobat Reader software, available from the Adobe website linked below, is required to view or print this type of file. The Acrobat Reader installs itself to operate in two ways:
This file format is independent of computer, operating system, or application programs. PDFs can accurately reproduce highly-formatted pages produced by desktop publishing programs and advanced word processors. Unusual fonts (including non-Latin character sets) used in the original composition are embedded in the file, and will reproduce correctly, even if the font is not present on your system. PDFs can also reproduce smoothly-scalable vector images (not jagged pixelated bitmaps) of technical diagrams produced by CAD, draw and mapping programs without needing the original program. At print time, the image can be automatically re-sized to the actual paper size regardless of the original layout size.
PDFs are created from any program with a "Print" command by the Acrobat "Distiller". This program, part of the full (purchased) version of Acrobat, is a specialized PostScript printer driver that captures print output into a PDF file instead of sending it to a real printer.