Handling NZ DST changes with the I-mate Jam & Dell Axim X50 Devices

Hi All,

There are customers who not running Windows Mobile 5 & 6 and therefore the upcoming DST change presents a challenge for them. We received this great information from Tony in Wellington who has used our registry editor for CE and created a fix for his customer.

Thanks to Tony Reid from Fujitsu in Wellington for sharing this information with us, we hope it is of use to you.

CAB file to update DST for Windows CE 4.2.1088 - CAB file that updates registry with new timezone information

Documentation on Handling DST in i-Mate JAM devices v1.1

Documentation on Handling DST in Dell Axim X50 devices v1.0

This update has been tested on a number of Windows Mobile 2003 successfully.

NB: The CAB file referred to in these documents has been moved to here .

DISCLAIMER - This is unsupported by Microsoft and therefore we offer no warranty or support if you choose to utilise information in this posting. This has not been tested by Microsoft as it is outside of extended support and therefore out of our test matrix. Please backup your registry before making any changes to ensure you have a known good restore point. As always please ensure you test this in a lab environment before deploying to production systems. 

Nick.