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Version History: ---------------- v4.7.0 added a "Set" button, which prompts the user for location data, therefore a Resdit is no longer needed. changed the whole "STR " concept. Soon now uses a seperate "settings" file (one way for me to get rid of the incompetence of Microsoft's compiler/tool support on resources ;). added a "sanity" check on the longitude/timediff. to GMT and fixed a little bug in the longitude/latitude display. added another STR resource (id# 7) which indicates which date format is to be used. 0 is MM/DD/YYYY, 1 is DD.MM.YYYY (I've planned to read this information from the date&time cdev but coudln't find the right resource). take the current time in account now for the moon's calculations (but they're not updated like the clock). the moon-data in the log file is for 12 o'clock (noon)… v4.6.1 small bugfix in the DST code. added the current time (hours/minutes) into the computation of the moonage/-terminator. when logging data to a file, these values are for 12:00 hours (noon)… v4.6.0 added code and button for the "status line" timing feature, polished the resource fork (added a vers and icn resource - the icon btw is from an old pgm called "MoonPhaser" which I've found while diving in my old pd disks)… v4.5.5 minor bugfixes… v4.5.4 added the feature to print a msg "DST starts/ends today!" on those days (in window & logfile). this version comes in german as well (v4.5.4D)… v4.5.3 changed the 24-hours-dt/nt clock to show night- and twilight hours… v4.5.2 replaced the ugly "."s with a nice "thermometer bar" showing the progress of the logged data, RETURN is now accepted for the "Do It!" button… v4.5.1 Paul Colquhoun from Australia notified me in an e-mail that DST on the southern hemisphere is just reversed. added this to the automatic DST detection routine… v4.5.0 added a graphical representation of the moonphase. replaced pure BASIC code with ToolCalls where applicable (filling, drawing etc.)… v4.4.2 according to an e-mail by Jerry Cederquist from Arizona, I've changed the meaning of the STR-resource #6. it's now a value of 0, 1 or 2, meaning "no DST at all", "DST March-September" or "DST March-October" resp… v4.4.1 bugfixes and slightly changed "behaviour". the window is now no longer "non- modal" and you have a standard menu with the "quit" and the "about" items. there's also an "edit" menu but it's of hardly any use (it's QB's default one!) v4.4.0 added another dialog before logging to disk. now the user has the choice of what data is to be logged to the file: everything or just the 4 moonphases (new, half(wax), full, half(wan)) in any combination… v4.4.3-4.3.5 bugfixes like: am/pm-bug, DST-bug (&revamping), moonphase-bug when logging over new-years eve, corrected the analog-clock's handles, verification of start/end dates to avoid "nonsense" headers in textfile… v4.3.0 added a "Log" button which prompts the user for a start and end date and writes out the data for this period to a textfile… v4.2.2-4.2.9 revamping of code, minor bugfixes, conceptual work on the source… the display is now completely updated when running over midnite…! v4.2.1 added detection of midnight sun and polar night if the location if beyond +/- 66.5 degrees latitude… it was posted to macgifts@sumex & umich as "Soon4" and there's a german version available on request… v4.2.0 added another analog clock. 24-hours-format, to display the night- and dayhours… v4.0.1-4.1.9 changed the GUI to display all the new data and - again - fixed a lot of bugs… v4.0.0 due to the (unexpected) response to "Soon3" I've been notified that there's something wrong with the sun-dates at different locations from where I live… it took me a while to realize that it's the approximation algorithm. while quick and compact (perfect for my BBS) it's apparently not working at different locations. read some books about astronomy and decided to use a "full-grown", correct algorithm. replaced both, the sun and the moon code, ported the source to QuickBASIC's binary-math-version and replaced the necessary variables to double-precision vars… v3.5.1 added a pointer for the seconds to the clock and let it update every second… v3.5.0 replaced the silly icon with the analog clock… hours and minutes were displayed and updated every 60 seconds… this version was also posted to macgifts@sumex as "Soon3" and the german version "Soon3D" got sent to "z-netz.rechner.apple.binaer"… v3.0.1-3.4.6 fixed alot of bugs that have been reported from the beta-force and mac-dinked the GUI… v3.0.0 added a GUI. data was displayed in a custom-window, along with some meaningless icon (to fill up space :). still using the approximation algorithms with the decimal version… compiled stand-alone applications were sent out to my beta- guys… along with the english version, there's one in german as well now… v2.0.0 port to Microsoft's QuickBASIC, decimal version. plain, standard ascii-output in default window. got never compiled to a stand-alone version… v1.0.0 first complete implementation of an approximation algorithm found in some pocket- calculator's handbook. added my own algorithm for the moonphases (deviation +/- 0.5 days). worked fine in my BBS. completely written in AppleSoft (on my IIgs)