What does this mean (Date/Time issue)

Hello all,
I had a question re: CE 4.2.net and its Date and Time CP.
Suddenly, my time zones have disappeared with the exception of any of the GMT listings for overseas (about 9 of them, none of them USA-indicative).
The missing ones have been replaced by a batch of selections, all listed as:
cplmain.cpl, #34xxx (xxx=incremental digits)

What is this, and how do I get the regular listings back. Do I need to do a hard reset, or is there a temp file I can trash (presuming a preference corruption of sorts)?
Thanks in advance for helping me continue to learn this little OS!
Best regards,
DLC

It sounds like the registry file may have become corrupted in some way as the CE 4 timezone data is stored in there.

If you have a backup, I would suggest restoring it, otherwise you will need to get an export of the listings and re-import it.

Out of curiosity, what file represents these listings, if I wanted to export them out of a healthy registry?
Thank you for the advice,
DLC

What you need is an uncorrupted version of the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Time Zones. Try this one, exported from my Fujitsu Stylistic CT2020 (also a CE 4.2 .net device):



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Time Zones.reg (42KB - 7 downloads)

Hi CE,
Thank you for the direction and for the file to try - I downloaded it and will try it ASAP.
Thank you very much again,
DLC