Re: What happened to my clock?!

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

LA County Outdoor Science School (lacoss@cello.gina.calstate.edu) wrote:
: dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff) writes:
: > 
: > Either I am going nuts, or my ROM 01/System 6.0.1/20Mb Vulcan/5.25Mb RAM
: > IIgs has just done something very unexpected.
: > 
: > I just looked down at the clock running on my comm program, and noticed
: > that it is *correct*.  A quick visit to the Control Panel verifies that,
: > indeed, my system clock is set correctly.

: 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.:)

Indeed...that option is checked.  It suprised me since it didn't happen
last year, but as I told someone via email, I think when I first installed
6.0.1 certain 6.0 versions of certain files got left behind.  Recently I
reformatted my hard drive and reinstalled 6.0.1 "from scratch."

: BTW, on a related note, does anybody know how to figure out when the 
: spring time change happens?  If the computer can figure it out, there 
: must be some kind of algorithm.  I know how to figure out when Easter is 
: (first sunday after the first full moon after the solstice), but how do I 
: predict the time change (either spring or fall)?

Easy.  The Spring time change (US) is on the first Sunday in April; the
Fall time change is, I think, on the last Sunday (or is it the first
Sunday...I forget off-hand) in October.

--Dave Althoff, Jr.
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