David Empson wrote:
Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:Since the IIgs was meant to be sold in the global market, surely there is a data file somewhere that contains the Daylight Savings Time/Summer Time rules, right...?Yeah, right. I never used the automatic daylight saving on GS/OS, because it only knew about the US rules. I needed something which was almost exactly the opposite, as I'm in the southern hemisphere. I just changed mode manually.
Interesting omission. I thought that Apple was the leader in internationalization in the PC market, so that's a pretty conspicuous oversight. I suppose one could always automate it in a startup program that checked the date, but maybe the interface is not even visible... -michael NadaNet networking for Apple II computers! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."