“Windows has adjusted your sytem’s clock as a result of daylight saving changes, please confirm that the changes are correct”
No, no, no.
I checked the ‘Automatically adjust clock for daylight saving changes’ box precisely because I wanted Windows to just get on and do it, not proudly announce it’s achievement like a school age child.
Seriously though; I have a PC that needs to boot directly into windows without any messages like that popping up; is there a registry key or something that I can set to suppress it, but still have automatic adjustments?
I truly hadn’t thought of that!; it would be nice if the machine could have the proper local time, as one of it’s functions will be data logging, but it isn’t absolutely essential; I can set it to remain on GMT all year and do the conversion after the data has been exported.
Mangetout, apart from k2dave’s common sense answer you have two options.
get a small proggie that clicks every ok/yes/next button it sees. this exists, you’ll just have to search thru win prog sites.
get another small proggie that auto synchronizes your system clock with that of an internet time server such that you are always within nanoseconds of the correct time.
Hi, Opal! haven’t seen this in a while… is everybody forgetting opal ?
But going back to setting the time to another time zone w/o daylight time. There is nothing written in the microsoft handbook that says that you have to set it to the actual time. Lets say you set it to zulu time (GMT). YOu could ‘lie’ to your computer and say you are at the time you are at now in zulu time. So you would be telling your computer it’s 11am zulu - when it’s really 11am your time. This way no conversion is needed.
I probably should have explained a bit more about what I’m trying to do; the PC will be onboard and controlling a small autonomous robot vehicle; it will be stripped down to the absolute minimum; no floppy drive, no case, no mouse, no keyboard, no VDU; it will be smart enough to find it’s own recharging station and, if that isn’t possible, shut itself down.
I just didn’t want to be in a situation where, on booting the machine from cold, it got stuck at the ‘confirm changes’ message but I wouldn’t be able to tell this without plugging it into a monitor.
The machine will communicate with a base station via a wireless network card and will need to be time-sensitive (the goal is to have it patrolling a warehouse at night, detecting possible fire and intrusion, sensing and examining anything out of the ordinary with passive IR, heat and sound sensors, plus a digital camera to grab the evidence, but it needs to go to sleep in the daytime, or at least not contact the police when the keyholder opens the warehouse in the morning), but it can probably synch time with the base station if required.
