[Dx4win] Can QSO times change in DX4Win?

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

QSO time is stored in GMT, it shouldn't matter to the log what time
zone the computer is set to.  When logging new QSOs, the PC must be
set to the correct time/time zone, or Casablanca time for UTC.

73 - Jim AD1C

On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Larry Alkoff <labradley at mindspring.com> wrote:
> I recently recovered my DX4Win qsos dating back from 1953 to April 2009.
> These were all in GMT time on a separate computer that was destroyed by
> a lightning strike.
>
> After recovering the .dxl file I purchased version 8.04 of DX4Win
> and installed it on a Windows 7 laptop.
>
> So far I have made no new qsos.
>
> Unfortunately I made an error when I setup DX4Win because the time is
> set for US Central time instead of GMT (Universal Coordinated Time now).
>
> My question:  If I change the new laptop of GMT will that make any time
> change in my previous qsos?  I know Windows is funny in how they handle
> the time and will make time changes in files, supposedly to accommodate
> businessmen who travel a lot.
>
> I would make sure DX4Win is not running when I make a time zone change.
>
> I'm afraid that changing the laptop time to GMT might affect the times
> on my many thousands of qsos.  I don't care about the time/date on the
> actual .dxl file but I care very much about the times listed in the qso
> records.
>
> So ... as the villain repeated many times in the movie Marathon Man,
> "IS IT SAFE?".
>
> Larry Alkoff N2LA

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Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us