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- X World Clock Vers. 1.0 11/30/1991
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- World Clock with eXtended setup for all time displays, time zones and
- alarms to any city or country in the world.
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- Enhancements for this release:
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- - User-defined Colors
- - Sizable XCLOCK window, position and size saved to next session
- - Sorted entries in location list
- - Location list editor with special setup for summer time
- - Xclock supports separate daylight-saving time setting for any location
- - Auto-Time-Corrections for summer time settings
- - Viewer for Xclock's documentfile
- - Support of user-defined helpfile
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- One minor restriction in this release: Absolute Time Base is fixed to
- Greenwich Mean Time.
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- Install
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- Copy XCLOCK.EXE, XCLOCK.CFG, XCLOCK.DAT, XCLOCK.INI and XCLOCK.DOC
- to a directory with the VBRUN100.DLL for Visual Basic Applications.
- You need this file to run this application, it is also available
- on CompuServe (MSBASIC Forum /VB).
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- Start the Windows Program Manager and install XCLOCK.EXE like other
- Windows applications: choose New and use Browse feature to select
- directory and XCLOCK.EXE file.
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- ( Start XCLOCK and choose Help / Read Doc to read this document file )
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- Setup
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- Choose Set from menu of X World Clock.
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- Set Local : Set the Local Time to a certain Time Zone.
- This is stored in XCLOCK.CFG file and
- restored on next start of XCLOCK
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- Set Clock : Set System Clock by Windows Control Program.
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- Mouse DblClick on a timer : Set local time to this time zone
- (if enabled in Special Menu) for temporary use, not saved to config file
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- Local Time Zone is displayed by different colors of location, date and time
- (depends on Color Setup). Location is signed by an asterisk.
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- Set Colors : Set Colors in Color Setup Window ( ? for help )
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- Edit Time Zones
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- 1. Select Normal or Special Setup
- Normal Setup: Select time difference in hours only for ordinary use.
- Special Setup: Additional selection for minutes.
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- 2. Mouse DblClick on Location Label:
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- In SETUP Window:
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- - Select location from location list
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- In Location List Editor :
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- - Insert new location
- - Select standard time difference to Greenwich Mean Time
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- Optional:
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- - for daylight-saving time (sommer time) select:
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- - month and first day of summer time
- - month and last day of summer time
- - summer-time time difference in hours (opt. minutes)
- to Greenwich Mean Time
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- XCLOCK is checking for summer time settings at:
- Start of Xclock, closing setup window, resizing Xclock window.
- If Xclock is running for days or weeks without resizing Xclock or
- without closing Xclock / Windows, you have to use "Check Summertime".
- Choose "Check Summertime" in Special Menu to force Xclock checking
- for summer time settings.
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- The timer of Xclock checks system timer every 10 seconds to set time
- displays but there is no checking for date. There is no need to check
- for daylight-saving time settings more then once a day.
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- Xclock automatically reflects summer time settings for each location
- from 02:00 of first day to 03:00 on next day after last day of summer time.
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- Standard time difference is used if there is no setup for summer time.
- Select Month as 0 if no summer time setup is required.
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- "Add new entry" saves new entry to XCLOCK.DAT and location list.
- "Delete entry" deletes selected entry from pulldown list and data file.
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- You must know the time difference / time zone related to Greenwich Mean Time
- if you choose others than defaults. (see example in setup window)
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- For this release you have to look for those time zones. Users of XCLOCK
- are invited to support this world clock with their own XCLOCK.DAT Files or
- messages at CompuServe.
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- Time Display at Icon
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- Mouse Click on City Label and minimize Xclock to icon shows City and related
- time at icon. City and time display are saved on exit (if confirmed).
- XCLOCK is loaded in Windows as an icon with time display if you edit
- WIN.INI file using notepad or sysedit:
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- load=c:\windows\utils\xclock.exe
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- (if you have xclock.exe in a subdirectory "utils" of the windows directory
- on drive C:)
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- Alarm Setup
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- Mouse Dblclick on Alarm Clock: Set Date, Time, City and Alarm Message in
- Alarm Window.
- Alarm settings will be written to config file (if confirmed) for use in next
- Windows sessions.
- If alarm times has passed between two Windows sessions, you will get the
- alarms when XCLOCK starts.
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- Reset
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- Reset sets XCLOCK to default time settings (see Reset Window)
- Optional: Reset of XCLOCK.DAT location file.
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- Help
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- Summary Help Window, also certain help windows for setup
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- User Help: Write your own helpfile in User Help Window
- or use notepad and save text file as XCLOCK.HLP .
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- Exit
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- If XCLOCK is closed by Exit Menu, by Control Box or by closing Windows,
- Xclock asks to save new configurations if setup has changed.
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- XCLOCK FILES
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- XCLOCK.CFG saves configuration of locations, time displays, colors and
- alarm settings.
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- XCLOCK.DAT saves locations, time differences and summer time setup of
- location editor window.
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- XCLOCK.INI saves position and size of Xclock on exit (always).
- Closing Xclock when iconized, next start Xclock is iconized.
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- XCLOCK.DOC This document file.
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- Optional: User-defined helpfile XCLOCK.HLP
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- Write your own help informations in User Help File Window and save it
- or use notepad and save text file as XCLOCK.HLP .
- XCLOCK.HLP is loaded in User Help File Window.
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- About X World Clock
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- This application was written as a first project in Visual Basic.
- It was designed to work best in SVGA modes 800x600 or 1024x768.
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- Please send a short message via CompuServe, if you detect some bugs in
- this program. Any other comments are also welcome.
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- Give a copy of X World Clock to anyone you like, it is freeware.
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- Author
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- Wilfried Kienemund
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- CompuServe 100015 , 2550
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