[geeks] Win2K and DST

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:55:32 -0500
"Chad McAuley" <chizad at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 3/11/07, Phil Stracchino <phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> > Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> > >
> > > That appears to be the way I'll have to handle my atomic watch.
> > >
> > > Stupid thing didn't spring forward over the weekend.
> > >
> > > Evidently it doesn't have a way of getting the zone information from the
> > > radio signal.
> >
> > My wife's alarm clock has the same problem.  DST is hardcoded.  No patch
> > possible, and it doesn't appear to get a DST flag from the NIST time
> > signal it's synchronized to.
> 
> 
> I wasn't sure what to expect when I woke up this morning, but my
> little travel atomic alarm clock flipped over just fine.  Although
> seeing as it's a travel alarm, it makes sense that it reads the DST
> flag from the NIST radio signals.

Well, this morning I got up and my atomic watch had the right time.

I guess for some reason it hadn't been able to read the radio signal since
Saturday night or something.

So, it appears to be OK after all.



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                  | anticipates outcome; the anticipation of outcome
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