Daylight Saving Time Fix
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Congress, trying to make our lives better rather than
cutting spending or taxes, changed the dates of Daylight Saving Time.
Two problems exist here:
- Older, completely reliable DOS-based systems were never designed to
automatically change the system date for Daylight Saving. Later
VoiceTrak and AVM systems included a routine by VoiceTrak LLC to make
these changes automatically, and these routines must be updated with
the new dates. We are providing this update at no charge.
- Microsoft, the benevolent behemoth, is not providing a free update
for Windows 2000 systems. Almost all WavMail, Daily Lifeline,
GetMyHomework, Daily Hello, VT2000/CTI and CallTrak systems run on
Windows 2000.
This very minor software change would be very, very simple for
Microsoft and we can only assume that they wish to push people to
their new Vista operating system by providing poor customer service
for Windows 2000 customers.
Fortunately a free 3rd-party solution updates the Windows registry to
correct the date issue.
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Why are we offering a FREE solution to this problem?
We considered charging a small fee to pay for the research and
development time required for this Daylight Saving time issue.
Instead, we are asking that you spend a few minutes reviewing Daily
Lifeline, WavMail or GetMyHomework. Almost every dealer has
customers that could benefit from these products and we hope you will
offer these solutions where it makes sense.
This is the honor system and we hope that you'll spend a few minutes
learning a little more about one or more of our products.
As always, sales support is free at 800.966.4446.
Please visit our main web site to see our products:
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DOS Fix
daysave.zip
Download this file and unzip it to a floppy disk. Type a:install
to run the update on a VoiceTrak or AVM DOS machine.
>> If your VoiceTrak or AVM system already has the Daylight
Saving routine this will update the routine and no other changes are
required.
>> If your VoiceTrak or AVM system DOES NOT already have the
Daylight Saving routine installed, it will also be necessary to add one
new line to the system.
VoiceTrak:
Add the line near the end of the c:\c2c\voice.bat
file, just above the 'c2c' command.
This line should read:
if exist c:\dos\dstadj.bat call c:\dos\dstadj.bat
AVM:
Add the line near the end of the c:\voicecon\vcbat.bat
file, just above the 'vcavm' command.
This line should read:
if exist c:\dos\dstadj.bat call c:\dos\dstadj.bat
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Windows 2000 Fix
DaylightSavingFix.exe
Download this file and run it on the Windows 2000 machine.
This routine was written by Intelliadmin, LLC. They can be found
on the Internet at http://www.Intelliadmin.com
We learned of this fix through a great technical on-line newsletter
called Windows Secrets located at http://www.WindowsSecrets.com
and strongly recommend that you subscribe to the free or paid
version.
The paid version is available for any amount of money you wish to
contribute. We have subscribed for two years and find this
newsletter to be very, very helpful for anyone working with Windows.
The advice and information is excellent.
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