From Newsgroup: alt.msdos.batch

On Mon, 20 May 2024 11:09:22 -0600, Jeff Barnett wrote:

I have a small Win 10 laptop that I got a few years ago to use for
TurboTax when Intuit quit running on Win 7. I occasionally use it for
video conferences too. Today I noticed that it was set to the wrong time zone so I tried to set it to the proper one.

I found my way to the place to change it by right click on the date-time
on the tool bar and selecting "adjust date/time". Though a "Time zone"
line was displayed, it was 1) grayed out and 2) non responsive to the
mouse. I tried turning off "Set time automatically" and noted that "set
time zone automatically" was off. The former could be toggled the latter could not. No combination allowed changing "Time zone".

Obvious question: How do I set the time zone for this laptop?

For fingerprinting reasons, I use an old batch script posted by, I think, Herbert Kleebauer long ago to this newsgroup (or to the batch newsgroup).

All it does is set the timezone randomly to any timezone using tzutil.
Here's an example line to set the time zone to "Arabic Time Zone".

REM (UTC+03:00) Baghdad
tzutil.exe /s "Arabic Standard Time"

Let me look for the script though... ok... I think I found it.

@echo off
rem tzrandom.bat randomly sets the Windows system timezone
rem by Herbert Kleebauer, 20200415, alt.msdos.batch
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion

:loop
set /a n=137*%random%/32768*3+1
for /f "tokens=*" %%i in ('tzutil /l^|more +%n%') do set a=%%i& goto :l1
:l1
echo.
echo.
echo setting time zone to: %a%
tzutil.exe /s "%a%"

:: wait 6-24h
set /a n=20864+(%random%*2)
set /a h=%n%/3600
set /a m=(n-(%h%*3600))/60
echo waiting %h% hours, %m% minutes
timeout %n%
goto :loop

exit 0
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