Text 587, 59 rader
Skriven 2007-03-14 17:00:01 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.0)
    Kommentar till text 586 av Mike Luther (1:117/3001.0)
Ärende: DST change
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 MiL> I still say that an engineered time scheme is a mark of a
 MiL> civilization in decay friend Marc!

errrmmm... marK ;)  that other marC lives (lived?) in katrina country ;)

 ml> i had to fix up my TZ string so that time868 would 
 ml> sync properly... instead of

 ml>   TZ=EST5EDT

 ml> i now use the following based on info in the time868 help file...

 ml>   TZ=EST5EDT,3,2,0,7200,11,1,0,7200,3600

 MiL> For whatever reason my version I wrote to you earlier of this, 

 MiL>        TZ=CST5CDT,3,2,0,7200,11,1,0,7200,3600

according to the specs (and the TIME868 docs) this would be the correct
string...

 MiL> did NOT work with TIME868.EXE for OS/2 here!  I spotted a post by
 MiL> Dink in the OS/2 Internet postings which said his wouldn't work
 MiL> that way with the strings in general .. and he changed that first
 MiL> 7200 number to 3600 and it then worked! 

that is totally weird... those 7200's are the time of day (in seconds after
midnight) to change the time... in other words, 3600 is 1AM... 7200 should be
2AM as is our practise here in NA... or am i misunderstanding something??

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 MiL> We also need to realize that not only the system time needs to be
 MiL> 'fixed' in the OS/2 boxes, but so do the Java 1.3.1 and Java 1.4.2
 MiL> toolsets.  There are URL's posted for downloading the Java 1.3.1
 MiL> fix with an OS/2 .CMD file to run for that.  

errg... yes, i've read about all that... however, my box is a plain old Warp 3
Connect with only FP40 applied... i do have a netscape communicator installed
on it but it is very old... if there is a java on that box, i couldn't tell you
at the moment... that box was a workstation and then was pressed into task as a
server and now stands as the master/main server here housing all online
services and tasks...

i'm not sure how far i'll update it... there's no device driver or networking
updates at all on that box... ibm got much too confusing about all that for my
tastes back then and i never got around to wading into all of it...

on a "brighter" note, though... i have recently gotten Zsolt's OS2MT and have
been attempting to at least pull in everything that i can... OS2MT is having
problems executing the wget that comes with it, though... in fact, it seems to
have problems executing executables, at all... it has to be something on this
box but i don't have a clue as to what it could be... do you carry the OS2MT
yahoogroup?? if so, you should have seen my recent flurry of messages in there
;)

)\/(ark

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