Re: What happened to my clock?!

[rubywand@aol.com (RUBYWAND)]

In article <4kaajr$jku@cello.gina.calstate.edu>,
lacoss@cello.gina.calstate.edu (LA County Outdoor Science School) writes:

>
>Check out the graphical control panel.  There is an option there for 
>"Auto Daylight Savings".  I bet yours is checked.  There is another neat 
>feature in the graphical time control panel.  If you press one of the 
>modifier keys (Option, I think) the display switches from "days left in 
>the year" to "days until Christmas".  I guess you could call that a 
>Christmas egg.:)
>

    Thanks for the neat info! I had removed the Time control panel in
order to save space and, so, had never checked out its features. 

>BTW, on a related note, does anybody know how to figure out when the 
>spring time change happens? ....

    A 1986 law sets the start of DST in the U.S. to be on first Sunday of
April. The switch to Standard Time happens on the last Sunday of October.





Rubywand