View History doesn't work in VSS 2005

I was doing some work with VSS 2005 this weekend and had a very wierd problem.  When I tried to view history for a file, nothing happened.  No errors, no prompts -- it just did nothing.  I tried this both from VS.NET 2005 as well as the VSS 2005 client.  Same thing.

So I did a little googling and found quite a few hits for this problem.  One of the solutions I found worked so I stuck with it.

• Start up the VSS Admin utility.
• Go to Tools, Options.
• Click on the "Time Zone" tab and change your time zone to "<None specified>" (the first one in the list).

Bingo!  History now works.