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mkpc
04-07-2003, 11:26 AM
What does the "daylight savings time" preference mean in the "date and time" page of the NZ90's preferences screen?  I thought it meant that the Clie would automatically adjust the time when daylight savings time began this past weekend, so I turned it on. But the time wasn't adjusted automatically - I had to do it manually this morning.

So, what does it mean?  I do not use BT or the WiFi connection.
the_iceman
04-07-2003, 11:31 AM
No Real Usefullness .... just on or off....

ON will move time ahead by an hour.
OFF will move time back an hour.

If you want to keep your PDA in sync with your PC go look at getting TIMECOPY ... from www.palmgear.com

OR go back to the HOME page here... there is a small write-up about it .... great free little utility.
cjones
04-07-2003, 11:37 AM
Originally posted by the_iceman
No Real Usefullness .... just on or off....

ON will move time ahead by an hour.
OFF will move time back an hour.



iceman.... are you *sure* that's what it does? I had it set to 'on' just like mkpc said he did, and I too didn't have any adjustment in my NZ's time when I woke up Sunday morning.

-chris
the_iceman
04-07-2003, 12:34 PM
maybe I am incorrect :) ... wouldn't be the first time..... nor the last... lol

I still think the lil proggie called timecopy is more than useful.... when syncing... to keep the times on your PC and PDA in sync with one another ....
cjones
04-07-2003, 12:50 PM
Ahh.. but that assumes your PC actually keeps good time iceman... :) I know mine doesn't!

That's why I do most of my work on the UNIX platform... :)

-chris
jwittman
04-07-2003, 01:20 PM
It's just another "manual" way to adjust the time (saves one tap). If daylight savings was turned off last week, you could turn it on Sunday morning to advance the clock by one hour. If you already had it turned on it would do nothing for you. In the fall, you can turn it back off to turn the time back one hour.
the_iceman
04-07-2003, 02:47 PM
cjones,

My PC syncs up with our LAN .... here at work ... so I get current time all the time .... it gets reset each time I log in :)
the_iceman
04-07-2003, 02:48 PM
cjones,

PLUS there are utilities for the PC which can sync your time up with the atomic clock... or NASA .... or a wide-variety of different sites... which are.. 'CURRENT TIME' :)
mkpc
04-07-2003, 03:22 PM
Jwittman,

That's IT!!  As soon as I turned the "daylight savings time" option to "off," the time jumped back one hour. When I turned it back on, the time jumped ahead one hour.  So, as you said, it's a "quick" way of "springing forward" or "falling backward" - kind of cute.

Iceman:

Thanks for the suggestion on Timecopy - I'll give it a try.

Thanks for all your replies. That's one mystery solved.

 

 
mkpc
04-07-2003, 03:25 PM
Iceman,

Thanks to you, too. I guess jwittman was saying the same thing you were saying, only in a different way.
mkpc
04-07-2003, 03:25 PM
Iceman,

Thanks to you, too. I guess jwittman was saying the same thing you were saying, only in a different way.
nz007
04-17-2003, 05:17 PM
guess its over and sorted now, is it?
n2ifp
04-17-2003, 06:07 PM
Originally posted by silencer
I think it is for the summer time change in Europe every year
(minus one hour for more usable sunlight => less power usage)
its a relikt of the seventies when the oil was expensive
dunno if it is worldwide too

(bad english, sorry)

Daylight savings time in the US goes way back before I was born in 1951.
Unregistered
04-17-2003, 07:20 PM
For you trivia buffs:

The Uniform Time Act of 1966 standardized DST in the USA. Prior to that many states did not observe it and were not mandated to do so by Federal law. There is the option in the law for states to pass individual laws to abstain from observing the time change.

Further refinements have occurred since that time.