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- INTRO:
- This is a small utility I wrote because a Windoze'95 luser pointed that his
- 'operating system' can switch automatically time when it's daylight saving time.
-
- This little proggy does exactly this: when needed it changes both the
- battery-backed-up clock and the system clock accordingly. It fully uses the
- Amiga operating system, so it should work on any configuration having a
- battery-backed-up clock. God (and few others) knows what will happen to a plain
- 1200 or 500, which miss a b.b.u. clock.
- When a change takes place, a small window will pop-up, telling you of the time
- shift.
- Version 1.1 adds the ability to specify the dates when the changes take
- place, in two different formats.
- BTW: DSTAC stands for "Daylight saving time automatic changer". Yes, sometimes I
- drink too much... :-)
-
- DENTRO (installing and configuring):
- Put the executable anywere you want (on your hard-drive, I mean), configure it,
- and have it launched at every system boot. To do the latter I suggest you
- either place it in your WB-Startup drawer or call it from within your
- startup-sequence or user-startup. These are the supported options:
-
- - FIXED mm:dd:hh mm:dd:hh
- Eg.: DSTAC FIXED 4:15:2 10:12:2
- FIXED means the two dates are fixed thorough the eons. The first three numbers
- indicate the DST starting date, so guess what the second one means.
- The first number is for months, the second one for days and the third hours;
-
- - PARAM mm:ww:wd:hh mm:ww:wd:hh
- Eg.: DSTAC PARAM 4:1:7:2 10:-1:7:2
- This is a 'parametrized' date specification (yes, I should improve my
- English :-) ).
- The first number is the month, the second one is the week of the month, the
- third one the week day (being 1 monday and 7 sunday), the last one is the hour.
- If you put -1 as the week, it means 'last week'. So the above options means that
- DST starts at the first Sunday of April, and ends on the last Sunday of October,
- both at 2:00 am . BTW: this should be the right settings for US and Canada.
-
- Options can be put on the command line or in the first Tooltype of the icon.
-
-
- OUTRO (bugs, and quirks, quarks and quurks):
- DSTAC does not make many sanity checks on the dates you supply, so don't be so
- idiot to put things like FIXED 2:30:2 11:31:2 .
- Also, tooltype reading is quite brutal: the program reads only the first line
- and DOESN'T support fancy things like parenthesis used to disable an option.
-
- ENDSCROLLER (contact address and thanks):
-
- Somehow lazy work done by: Andrea Vallinotto
- e-mail: a.vallinotto@agora.stm.it
- Fidonet: 2:334/21.13
- Amiganet: 39:101/402.13
-
- Many thanks to a cool Canadian guy named John R Marshall for the fastest
- bug-report I've ever heard of (less than 24 hours form the release time).
- Thanks to Alessandro 'Stylus' Zummo for help on timer.device (it was my first
- time dealing with ADos devices, WOW!)
-
- This software is FREEWARE, unless you think the only good software is the one
- you pay a shareware fee for. In this case you're required to send me US $20
- (ask me for my address) and to use Windog'95 .
-
- Any commercial distribution, except for Aminet CDs, is forbidden!
-
- Have a nice day (why not ?).
-