Note: Upon installation, the World Clock is initialized for the Los Angeles time zone. Unless you live in that zone, you must first adjust it for your local time. See 'Setting the Clocks' on how to accomplish that. Times are displayed according to your international setting in the Windows Control Panel.
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Spin (Up/Down) control:
Use this control to temporarily slew to other times to perform 'what if' lookups. (What time must I call my customer in Tokyo to reach her/him at noon?) Press 'Reset' to return to your local time.
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Reset:-
Resets the clocks to match your local time.
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Setting the Clocks:
The World Clock displays 6 locations, 5 of which are programmable by you. To make any changes to the clock settings, select 'Options' from the main menu. You may also simply double-click on any City label on the clock.
All settings are based on London (G.M.T.) time. We use Los Angeles in California, USA as an example. Checking a world time chart, Los Angeles is 8 hours West of London. Therefore we enter '-8' into the offset location next to the 'Los Angeles' title. (Had we wanted Germany, we would have entered 'Germany' as the title. Germany is 1 hour East of London, therefore we enter '1' into the offset.) Repeat this procedure for any other location you wish to change. Just remember, going East from London, numbers are positive, going West they are negative.
Next we must set the offset from London to our location. Since we are in Los Angeles, we enter '-8' into the last box.
Be sure to press 'Set' when done, and again press 'Set' after getting back to the DiaLog Options menu.
The Los Angeles clock now displays your computer clock time and you can see the local time of all the other selected locations.
To program a location that is not an even hour from London, like New Delhi, proceed as above, but since New Delhi is 5 hours and 30 minutes East of London, enter 5.5 next to the New Delhi title. Only 30 minute locations can be handled in that fashion.
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Some Offsets:
Offsets from G.M.T. for some world cities:
Note: These offsets are based on standard times. If your zone is on daylight savings time and the other zone is not (like Japan for now), you must adjust the offset by 1 hr.
Africa-South, Johannesburg ... 2
Alaska, Anchorage ......... -9
Argentina, Buenos Aires ... -3
Australia, Perth .......... 8
Australia, Sydney ........ 10
Bangladesh, Dacca ......... 6
Brazil, Rio De Janeiro .... -3
Canada, Toronto ........... -5
China, Beijing ............ 8
Egypt, Cairo .............. 2
Finland, Helsinki ......... 2
France, Paris ............. 1
Germany, Berlin ........... 1
Hawaii, Honolulu .......... -10
Hong Kong ................. 8
India, New Delhi .......... 5.5
Indonesia, Jakarta ........ 7
Italy, Rome ............... 1
Japan, Tokyo .............. 9
Kenya, Nairobi ............ 3
New Zealand, Wellington ... 12
Newfoundland .............. -3.5
Nigeria, Lagos ............ 1
Pakistan, Karachi ......... 5
Peru, Lima ................ -5
Russia, Moscow ............ 3
Saudi Arabia, Riyadh ...... 3
Solomon Islands ........... 11
Thailand, Bangkok ......... 7
United Arab E., Dubayy .... 4
USA, Chicago, IL ........... -6
USA, Denver, CO ............ -7
USA, Los Angeles, CA ....... -8
USA, New York, NY........... -5
Venezuela, Caracas ........ -4
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Alarm Clock:
Use the alarm clock to alert you with a message or with music from a program like our CD Player and Library program.
Use shortcut keys Ctrl-P and Ctrl-M to set the alarm with music or message respectively.
Sample command lines for our MyCDplayer program:
c:\mycd\mycd.exe /play
c:\mycd\mycd.exe /play program
c:\mycd\mycd.exe /play shuffle
c:\mycd\mycd.exe /play track04
c:\mycd\mycd.exe /play drv e: shuffle ; Win95 Only (we think!)
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Help:
This help file.
To see other topics, click the desired topic at the left.
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Display SubTopics:
'SubTopics' / 'No SubTopics' is a toggle control. Pressing it will alternately display and not display the subtopics. This comes in handy when there are many topics and subtopics.
Displaying only the main topics makes it easier to zero in on the desired topic. If a main topic is selected now, the main topic will move to the top of the topics display (unless you are at or near the end of the topics) and the system will revert to the 'SubTopics' mode.
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OutPut Topic:
The text of the selected topic will be placed into the Windows Write program. From here it may be printed, saved to another file, or otherwise manipulated. Don't forget to exit from the Write program when finished with it.
