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Date:	Sun, 11 May 2003 22:37:35 PDT7
From:	Steve Carter <scarter@vcnet.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: More on setting clock from startup.cmd

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My favorite is a PM app, TIME868, by Norbert Dey and available at Hobbes.

I START it and it runs after a settable wait time and then closes,
all transparently, if you like. It's got a bunch of time servers
programmed in and room to add more. There's a little graph of the
corrections applied and a way to set the maximum correction
permitted at any one time. It can even act as a time server,
although I've not gotten that feature to work, probably because
I'm not bright/determined enough.

He includes a nifty little OS/2 time zone program to determine your
correct TZ variable, but it's kinda fun to play with and see the
peculiar offsets around the world. For example, do you know what
the timezone offset is for Miquelon & St. Pierre? Do you know
where this French territory is located? It's the closest piece
of France to the mainland US and Canada, I believe.

Postcard-ware from Norbert Dey. From my (limited) correspondence
with him, he seems to be very knowledgeable about these time-related
things. And it's a NATIVE OS/2 app, not ported from *nix.

--Steve

ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/internet/time/time868f.zip

On 5/10/03, Peter Skye wrote, in part:
> ...
>One of the commands in it runs Daytime which gets the "atomic clock"
>time over the Internet and accurately sets the hardware clock on the
>motherboard....

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