There is a Microsoft bug in the Israeli time zone handling in XP SP3,
which manifests with TimeSoZone as an error “SystemTimeToTZSpecificLocalTime()
failed”. The error appears on the first time or date operation, and
repeats on all subsequent such operations. As the first operation in writing
the error log is to write the time, that too fails with “A diagnostic
dump of the error could not be made, or the dump was incomplete”.
The solution is to change the time zone data in the registry to
be compatible with SP3, and I’ve attached a registry patch that will do
this.
1.
Log in as an account with local administrator rights.
2.
Start | Run | regedit
3.
Choose File | Export and enter the following for the Selected
Branch field at the bottom:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Time Zones\Israel Standard Time\Dynamic DST
4.
Save to your desktop as IsraelSP3.reg, thus backing up this
section of the registry.
5.
Unzip the attached .zip file to your desktop, producing one .reg
file
6.
Right-click the .reg file and choose Merge, agreeing to apply
the changes to your registry.
(If you later want to revert the patch, simply Merge the IsraelSP3.reg file
from step 4 instead)
This should cure the problem not only for VW / TimeSoZone, but
also for the many other affected applications: Apache, Javascript, Adobe
Photoshop, Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, Microsoft Office, TortoiseSVN etc.
Another approach may be to hand-edit the registry following
Microsoft’s instructions, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953917.
However, that seems to only fix 2008, not later years, and we have not tested
it yet; the solution above changes all years and is confirmed for at least two
applications.
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