It just opens the time and date configuration window.8.2.7 JRE Internal Representation of Time Zone Mappings When I had tested the command on XP, I found that it does not work for all the timezones. RunDL元2.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL timedate.cpl,/Z Central Standard Time There’s another method in circulation for setting time zone from command prompt. The above method works for all Windows versions – XP, Windows 7, Server 2003 and Server 2008. reg file and then reboot the machine to make the changes effective. Whenever you want to set the time zone from command line just run the exported. You just need to set the time to your desired time zone using GUI (timedate.cpl) and then capture the registry values by exporting the registry key TimeZoneInformation to a reg file.
Now the question is how to get these values for the time zone you want to set? It’s very simple. Now it’s clear that in order to change the time zone we need to put right data in these registry values. StandardName REG_SZ Pacific Standard Time HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation This registry has the following information on my computer. There is another registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation which has information about the current time zone. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Time Zones. I found that the below registry key stores the information about different time zones. I tried further to find if there is any registry hack and below is what I came up with. While searching for a solution to this problem I got to know that there is a Windows Resource kit tool called timezone.exe which can be used to change day light savings.It does not set time zone. Run the command ‘ tzutil /l‘ to get the list of time zones available. We can find the current time zone by running the following command.
Command to set time zone to Pacific Standard Time: tzutil /s "Pacific Standard Time"Ĭommand to set time zone to Central America standard time: tzutil /s "Central America Standard Time" Get the current time zone
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