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- World Clocks v2.39.1 (BETA) - for Windows 95/NT 4.0
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- World Clocks can any number of clocks - each one configured for a
- different city. Choose from a list of over 100 cities. Add more cities
- if your city is not already listed.
-
- For installation, just copy the executable WCLOCKS.EXE and this file
- to your favourite folder. To run World Clocks, execute WCLOCKS.EXE.
-
- This software is in BETA test phase.
-
- A note to programmers:
- Q1. Do you think that World Clocks should work as an OLE Automation
- Server ?
- Q2. Do you think that World Clocks can provide services to other
- applications ?
- If your answer to any of the above is Yes, please enumerate the
- services your would like to have and mail to the author.
-
- - Chirag Dalal
- chirag@theoffice.net
- http://www.theoffice.net/chirag/
-
- Keys
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- Ctrl+N: Create a new clock.
- Ctrl+C: Configure current clock.
- Tab: Go to the next clock (in creation order).
- Shift+Tab: Go to the previous clock (in creation order).
- Ctrl+F4: Close the current clock. If it is the last one then exit
- World Clocks.
- Alt+F4: Exit World Clocks.
-
- The context menu (alternate mouse button click on Title Bar)
- also gives access to these options (except Tab and Shift+Tab).
-
- Under Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 you will be able to see the
- World Clocks icon in the System Tray. If you find your desktop
- clutered up with World Clocks, you can Hide them with a single
- click on the World Clocks System Tray icon. A second click will
- show them. You can exit World Clocks by using the alternate click
- on the Tray icon and selecting Exit.
-
- World Clocks supports macros for customizing the display of the
- information line (the second line). The following macros are
- supported:
- - $GMT: The string 'GMT +HH:MM'
- - $DATE: It is equivalent to '$WEEKDAY, $MONTH $DAY, $YEAR'
- - $CITY: City name
- - $DAY: Day of month
- - $WEEKDAY: Day of the week (for example, Saturday)
- - $SHORTWEEKDAY: Day of the week in short format (for example, Sat)
- - $MONTH: Month name (for example, August)
- - $SHORTMONTH: Month name in short format (for example, Aug)
- - $YEAR: Year (for example, 1998)
- - $SHORTYEAR: Year in 2 digit format (for example, 98)
- Examples of typical caption strings:
- - The string '$DATE, ($GMT) $CITY' will produce an output like:
- 'Saturday, March 28, 1998, (GMT +05:30) Bombay'
- - The string
- '$SHORTWEEKDAY, $SHORTMONTH $DAY, $SHORTYEAR, ($GMT) $CITY'
- will produce an output like:
- 'Sat, Mar 28, 98, (GMT +05:30) Bombay'
- - If your city is not listed in the time zone list, you can include
- your city name in the caption string. Just select proper time zone
- and use a caption string like this:
- '$DATE, ($GMT) My City Name'
- This produces an output like:
- 'Saturday, March 28, 1998, (GMT +05:30) My City Name'
-
- If this seems too intimidating, just try out some of these captions,
- I am sure you will feel comfortable with it. This is not programming
- but a way to customize an application to your needs. You need not
- be a programmer to use these features.
-
- Technical details
- -----------------
- World Clocks is a multi-threaded application written in Borland
- Delphi 2.0. For showing the date and time it does not use timers
- (they are precious). The application has a main thread which is
- responsible for creating the first clock. Each clock runs in
- its own thread and hence the application is light on resources.
-
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- Any comments, suggestions and bug-reports are welcome.
-
- Author: Chirag Dalal
- Address: 6/54, Varma Nagar, Old Nagardas Road,
- Andheri (East), Bombay - 400069,
- Maharastra, India.
- E-Mail: dalal.chirag@usa.net
- Bug-reports: dalal.chirag@usa.net (Subject: World Clocks v2.39.1)
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