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PA2WIV > TIME 08.11.05 15:40l 38 Lines 1250 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: Re:Daylight saving and windoze
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From: PA2WIV@PI8CDR.#DRE.NLD.EU
To : TIME@WW
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# On : 8-11-05 15:28:29
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>From: VK2ZRG@VK2WI.#SYD.NSW.AUS.OC
>To : TIME@WW
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>VK2ZRG/TPK 1.83d Msg #:1651 Date:08-11-05 Time:10:53Z
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>Hello Everybody,
> Does microsoft think that it is beyond the wit or capability
>of the average windoze, user to enter the correct data for daylight saving?
>
Yes, at the time that BBS-es ran on DOS a lot of BBS-es showed always the
same time. It was the time at they were started up.
Even now I see TstHost v1.43 messages with headers that say "UTC -5" for
The Netherlands, what never is the good time.
The callbook program I use (DOS prg, but runs OK under XP) states for the
time: Local Time 15:17; UTC 13:17. Wrong, it is 14:17.
There is no config file where this can be corrected as some DOS prg's have.
It was written in 1999, why the writer choosed for a time setting on the
screen I don't know, but he clearly had no idea about summer/winter time......
So I think that a lot of users don't have any idea or they are not
interested or they forget to change times......the last one will be the
real reason....
Vy 73 Tinus PA2WIV@PI8CDR
e-mail alias at: amsat.org / qsl.net
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