[geeks] Win2K and DST

[Chad McAuley]

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.