does YOUR Mac know about Daylight-Savings time?
Posted: November 29th, 1984, 2:45 am
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Subject: does YOUR Mac know about Daylight-Savings time?
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Date: Sat, 3-Nov-84 01:09:55 EST
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From: Werner Uhrig
both "mickey" and "minnie" needed to be told - lots of their friends here
still get up an hour too early .....
(IBM 370s don't even know about "continuous time" after 'power-off')
could some knowledgable hacker voice an opinion on what it would take to
a) run the clock in Zulu (GMT) time?
b) set the display to a time-zone chosen from a menu
c) create some software that would automate the time-changes in spring and fall
d) keep files with a date/time-stamp in Zulu, but displaying it in the
chosen time-zone time, when listing a directory.
e) keep the date and time permanently displayed on the screen, maybe as part
of the menu-line. updating it once every minute would be quite
sufficient.
Maybe Apple ought to start a program where they offer $$$s to hackers who
make small / neat programs available for public distribution by Apple.
Sure would be good advertising and shouldn't cost more than a fraction
of what they throw at TV and magazines for generating catchy "over-statements"
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From: info-mac@uw-beaver (info-mac)
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Subject: does YOUR Mac know about Daylight-Savings time?
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Date: Sat, 3-Nov-84 01:09:55 EST
Article-I.D.: uw-beave.2101
Posted: Sat Nov 3 01:09:55 1984
Date-Received: Mon, 5-Nov-84 08:05:20 EST
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From: Werner Uhrig
both "mickey" and "minnie" needed to be told - lots of their friends here
still get up an hour too early .....
(IBM 370s don't even know about "continuous time" after 'power-off')
could some knowledgable hacker voice an opinion on what it would take to
a) run the clock in Zulu (GMT) time?
b) set the display to a time-zone chosen from a menu
c) create some software that would automate the time-changes in spring and fall
d) keep files with a date/time-stamp in Zulu, but displaying it in the
chosen time-zone time, when listing a directory.
e) keep the date and time permanently displayed on the screen, maybe as part
of the menu-line. updating it once every minute would be quite
sufficient.
Maybe Apple ought to start a program where they offer $$$s to hackers who
make small / neat programs available for public distribution by Apple.
Sure would be good advertising and shouldn't cost more than a fraction
of what they throw at TV and magazines for generating catchy "over-statements"
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