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Posted by dorayme on 10/07/03 11:16
> From: dorayme <dorayme@optusnet.com.au>
>> From: Mark Parnell <webmaster@clarkecomputers.com.au>
>
>> Previously in alt.html, dorayme <dorayme@optusnet.com.au> said:
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>>> It is now 10.11 am Friday 20th of May 2005 here and my computer clock is
>>> saying as much. I am on dial up. I am on a Mac. I am posting this now.
>>>.... So what gives?
>>
>> ..., and your post says it
>> was sent at 9.11AM, not 10.11. It's because the time zone is set to GMT
>> +11 instead of +10. Not sure whether that's set on your computer, or on
>> your newsserver though.
>
> I took a look at my Date and Time control panel (OS 9.1) and my extensions.
> It is true that I have Time Synchroniser turned off as its main function
> seemed to be its auto "daylight saving" updates...
No. Its main (and probably only) function is to synchronise one's time with
some outside standard clock. Manually ("set time now" button) or auto (on
some schedule I guess). I made an experiment, set the wrong time and said
"update now" and it magically corrected. Useful to know.
The cause of the whole problem was not this. It was my casual
misunderstanding of an option to do with daylight saving. I had it ticked
when I should not have. In spite of the time appearing correctly on my
machine, this tick was making it appear to others wrong, an algorithm taking
my word that I was on daylight saving and correcting for the rest of the
world. At least this is what I am now thinking after thinking about it and
looking at things on my machine. It is 6.09 PM.
I know: duh!
OK folks, I am confident now I will appear in your time scale. Now I must
work on the planet bit, Sydney on the *same* planet as everyone else. No
wonder Steve Pugh wondered what I was on. I took offence at the time
thinking he meant drugs! But of course, he meant "Which planet?" I feel so
silly now.
dorayme
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