[Dx4win] UTC offset???

[Dan Szymanski]

I would like make a suggestion to those who use UTC either forget to uncheck
the box NOT to adjust for DST or for what ever other reason happens along.

I myself have been guilty of forgetting about un-checking the box so UTC is
really UTC not a Daylight Savings Version for some of us.

If you look on Date and Time Properties and select (GMT) Casablanca,
Monrovia, you will see that this is a non selectable DST time zone.  Kind of
like living in Indiana without having to move there.

Selecting (GMT)  Greenwich Mean Time: Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London now
brings up the check box that I bet some people check without realizing at
that moment in time what they are doing.

I also suggest the use of any of the freeware internet time synchronizing
programs. I only wish that Packet Cluster Sysops would check the RTC of the
Node machines running any Packet Cluster Node software.

Of course the truly independent IT professional person would have their own
GPS based Stratum 1 time reference in the station providing timing for
logging and Network Element timing within their domain.

Regards,

Dan
K3SKE
Frederick, MD
PVRC/NCDXA


----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Stoneking" <w2rds@arrl.net>
To: <dx4win@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 17:53
Subject: Re: [Dx4win] UTC offset???


> Sounds like your Windows time zone setting is off.
>
> Rick
> W2RDS
>
>
> >What am I doing wrong!!!!@$&!$(!$  Turned on DX4WIN this morn and UTC
> >offset is incorrect, showing 14:11 and proper time is 15:11 UTC. SO....
> >I go to file|preferences| personal...  Can't find UTC offset, look
> >through all the rest of preferences and can't find it!  Am I going
> >crazy? Help!  :)
>
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