[geeks] Win2K and DST

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm at mendelson.com>
>Date: 2007/03/12 Mon AM 01:20:45 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Win2K and DST

>On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 12:55:32AM -0500, Chad McAuley wrote:
>> 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.
>
>
>According to several people on other lists I am on, the signals from
>WWV (the U.S. time standard station) where changed at the correct time.
>
>Some clocks picked them up right away, some needed to be reset. Many people
>had problems because although they thought the signal was synchronizing
>the clock all the time, in reality they were only getting signals
>for a few hours a day.
>
>What I want is an LED (or LCD) clock that runs NTP.and has an ethernet
>port with a WiFi option.

Sounds like a great use for older Apple laptops...

>Sometimes I sorry I got rid of my Mackay-Dymek (pardon the probable 
>spelling error) digital clock, circa 1970. It had Nixe tubes, and stepper
>switches similar to those used in telephone exchanges.
>
>It would make a loud click every second, a clunk every ten, The 12 hour change
>was really impressive, the second, minute, hour and ten hour switches
>would reset at the same time.

I would NEVER have admited to that, the geek points you lose by pitching not only Nixie Tubes, but telco-like stepper motors is honestly incalculable... ;^)

Lionel