RE: UTC Setting (was: Service message: Daylight saving time starts)

["Johnson, Duane" <djohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

How do you set the alarm?  Or use the timer?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henrik Krebs [SMTP:hkrebs@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 4:02 PM
> To:   midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:      RE: UTC Setting (was: Service message: Daylight saving time
> starts)
> 
> Splendid idea. Hopefully they do more than 'just talking'.
> 
> I've just bought a radio controlled wrist watch. No buttons at all and
> truely read-only. As a programmer I always get frustrated by my keyboard
> with ... well MANY buttons, and I always press the wrong ones.
> 
> Of cause - If I migrate to US I'll have to go to Europe at every DST
> transitions in order to make it work, but imagine: No buttons!
> 
> Henrik
> 
> > date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 16:34:08 -0500
> > from: "Al Barsa" <barsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > subject: RE: UTC Setting (was: Service message: Daylight saving time
> starts)
> > 
> > 
> > QUTCOFFSET was a poorly implemented way to determine absolute time.  IBM
> is
> > talking about making time management more robust on the system, and at
> that
> > time QUTCOFFSET might be changed to read-only.
> > 
> > Al
> > 
> > Al Barsa, Jr.
> > Barsa Consulting Group, LLC
> > 
> > 400>390
> > 
> > 914-251-1234
> > 914-251-9406 fax
> > 
> > http://www.barsaconsulting.com
> > http://www.taatool.com
> 
> 
> 
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