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The NAME field allows you to type in to 20 characters of your
name. You can use the backspace key ( <-- ) to edit mistakes.
The BIRTH DATE field prompts you for the month, day and year
of your birth.
The BIRTH TIME field prompts you for the STANDARD TIME you were
born. If you were born in war time or daylight savings time,
simply subtract one hour from the time on your birth certificate
and enter this as the STANDARD TIME. For example, if you were born
at 4:31 a.m. in New York during daylight savings time, you would
enter 3:31 EST (Eastern Standard Time). Some localities in United
States have adopted Daylight Savings Time in the past, so the time
of day on your birth certificate may be shifted by one hour.
Consult the manual for details about war time and daylight savings
time. An excellent reference is Doris Doane's book, 'Time Changes
in the USA'.
The TIME ZONE field prompts you for the time zone of your birth
place. For example, 0 hours is GMT (Greenwich Mean Time), -5 hours
is EST (Eastern Standard Time), -6 hours is CST (Central Standard
Time), -7 hours is MST (Mountain Standard Time), and -8 hours is
PST (Pacific Standard Time). If in doubt about the time zone,
consult an atlas.
The birth LONGITUDE is in degrees, hemisphere, and minutes. For
example, 97 W 31 means 97 degrees (W)est and 31 minutes. The
United States is in the (W)estern hemisphere.
The birth LATITUDE is in degrees, hemisphere, and minutes. For
example, 42 N 22 means 42 degrees (N)orth and 22 minutes. The
United States is in the (N)orthern hemisphere.
The CURRENT DATE field prompts you for the month, day and year
for TODAY's horoscope. Note that the program defaults to the
system clock, but you may select a different date if you wish
(eg. to compute a daily horoscope for next week, or next month).
The CURRENT TIME field prompts you for the time for TODAY's
horoscope. Enter the STANDARD TIME, subtracting an hour from the
daylight's savings time, if applicable.
The TIME ZONE field prompts you for the time zone for your
current location. For example, 0 hours is GMT (Greenwich Mean
Time), -5 hours is EST (Eastern Standard Time), -6 hours is CST
(Central Standard Time), -7 hours is MST (Mountain Standard Time),
and -8 hours is PST (Pacific Standard Time). If in doubt about the
time zone, consult an atlas.
The USA MAP can be used to determine the approximate longitude
and latitude of birth. Move the crosshair icon (the '+' shape)
over the point in the USA where you were born (if you don't have a
mouse, use the arrow keys) and click the mouse (or press the ENTER
key). The longitude appears in the box below. When done entering
the longitude and latitude, select the DONE button. Your longitude
and latitude have now been updated on the new user screen.
Select the CITY NAME button and type in the name of your city to
get the precise longitude and latitude of your birthplace. For
example, if you were born in Dallas, Texas, you would type:
'Dallas TX'. The case is not significant, so 'dallas tx' would do
just as nicely. Use the two letter abbreviation for states after
the city name. You can omit the state abbreviation, and type in
'dallas', because there is only ONE Dallas in the database. Some
cities, however, may exist in more than one state.
There are over 600 cities in the database. After entering a
city name (which is in the database), a little dot appears on the
USA map where the city is located. When finished, select DONE to
return to the main screen.
FOR THE DARING USER: You can enter new cities or towns into the
database by loading the file 'cities.dat' into a text editor or
word processor and typing new longitude/latitude data into it.
Make sure that each new line of data you enter looks exactly the
same as the existing lines of data. You must use spaces (via the
Space Bar) between names, NOT tabs (tab key)! As a precaution
against 'messing up' the cities.dat file, make a copy of it under
the name 'cities.old'. That way, if the program has trouble
reading your modified 'cities.dat' file, you can always switch
back to the original file. Depending on how much usable RAM your
system has, you could enter a couple of thousand new cities into
the file for the program to load.