Quick and easy way to set timezone from command line in Windows 2003, XP and 2000.
CONTROL.EXE TIMEDATE.CPL,,/Z Eastern Standard Time
CONTROL.EXE TIMEDATE.CPL,,/Z Central Standard Time
CONTROL.EXE TIMEDATE.CPL,,/Z Mountain Standard Time
CONTROL.EXE TIMEDATE.CPL,,/Z Pacific Standard Time
These are a little longer but they do the same thing.
RunDLL32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL timedate.cpl,,/Z Eastern Standard Time
RunDLL32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL timedate.cpl,,/Z Central Standard Time
RunDLL32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL timedate.cpl,,/Z Mountain Standard Time
RunDLL32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL timedate.cpl,,/Z Pacific Standard Time
See also Set Time Zone From Command Line in Windows 7 and Windows 2008
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CONTROL.EXE TIMEDATE.CPL,,/Z W. Europe Standard Time
My tests showed that this does not work if you use the names that are shown in the XP timezone dialog (GMT+0100) Windhuk). It seems that those are only display names.
When I used the names for the subkeys of
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionTime Zones
it worked well. Those names are all English and it seems that XP needs that.