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Time zone updates for Norfolk Islands, Australia and Fiji Island are available

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Nakul_Bhagat
Former Employee
Oct 15, 2019

The September 2019 update provides below Daylight Savings Time (DST) changes.

 

  • DST in Norfolk Island, Australia will start at 2:00 am on the first Sunday in October current year, that is October 6th, 2019 and end at 3:00 am on the first Sunday in the April, that is April 5th, 2020. It will continue to follow the same time interval each calendar year thereafter.

 

  • DST in Fiji Island will start at 2:00 am on Sunday November 10, 2019 and end at 3:00 am on Sunday January 12, 2020.


More details about latest DST changes can be found here.

To reflect these changes automatically, Windows 10 customers should ensure they have the latest updates installed. Windows 10 Update history can be found here.

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  • Peter_Hughson's avatar
    Peter_Hughson
    Copper Contributor
    Nov 01, 2019

    you can use: gpupdate /force

    also ask users to reboot, and check their time/Timezone info. 

  • Nakul_Bhagat's avatar
    Nakul_Bhagat
    Former Employee
    Oct 30, 2019

    kitionel , if you have access to the remote machines as an admin then you should be able to work it out using a wmi or a PowerShell script. 

  • kitionel's avatar
    kitionel
    Copper Contributor
    Oct 30, 2019

    yes that works, however it seems it only runs every 8 days or so, and there is only 1 working day between now and Sunday, thus most of our users won't get the update. Can we trigger this en-masse?

  • Nakul_Bhagat's avatar
    Nakul_Bhagat
    Former Employee
    Oct 30, 2019

     kitionel , did you make sure the tzsync.exe ran ? You’ll find it in the task scheduler, under Microsoft/Windows/TimeZone. The job is called SynchronizeTimeZone. Can you try running it and check if the registry settings got updated properly ? Peter_Hughson , it would be great if you try that too. Thanks.

  • kitionel's avatar
    kitionel
    Copper Contributor
    Oct 30, 2019

    I'm not rolling out everything in GPO, only 2019, 2020, and LastEntry - as these are the only three values that need changing.

  • Peter_Hughson's avatar
    Peter_Hughson
    Copper Contributor
    Oct 30, 2019

    Beautiful. Thanks for your query - I enjoyed trying it out. It took a lot of effort to get our timezone changed as we have never had daylight saving before and Microsoft were unable to help in the short notice period. GPO is the way to go for updates.

    Peter

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    Peter_Hughson
    Copper Contributor
    Oct 30, 2019

    Can you try a shorter method perhaps....in the registry under 'Dynamic DST' add a new Binary record the same as 2018, only that you change the '0b 00 00 00 01' to '0b 00 00 00 02', and also change the 'Last Entry' value from 2018 to 2019. And then try this.

    I think that the Last Entry value was stopping the system from reading the 2019 record. I did just try this on the standard Fiji and it worked OK.