AccuSet was developed to provide users of the Microsoft Windows environment with a solution for accurately setting and maintaining their computer's date and time. AccuSet provides this service
by synchronizing your system's internal clock with the cesium atomic clock at either the National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) in Boulder, Colorado, the United States Naval Observatory (USNO) in Washington, DC., Telecom Australia, the Swedish National Time Service (Sweden), the National Electrotechnical Institute (Italy), the Technical University of Graz (Austria), National Research Council (Canada) or the BBC Dial-In Time Service (United Kingdom).
AccuSet Features:
Offers the most accurate synchronization possible with more atomic clocks than any other program.
Determines the accuracy of your PC's internal clock. AccuSet can then make corrections to the system clock to compensate for its error rate, without the need for a telephone call.
Displays the date/time for any five (user-configurable) cities around the world.Displays the estimated correct time and number of seconds the clock has deviated from the actual time, based on the internal clock's rated accuracy.
Support for automated Daylight Savings Time handling. AccuSet directly supports the DST rules for North America, United Kingdom, Continental Europe, China and Australia. Users can also manually define DST starting/ending dates.
Support for overdue modem synchronization and excessive error compensation warnings.
AccuSet will assist first time users to properly configure the program with a series of easy to understand questions.
Support for manual time adjustments.
Commercial-quality, intuitive interface. Supports a user-selectable digital or text interface.
Easy to use and configure - with automatic modem detection.
Supports call logging. Any adjustment which AccuSet makes to the internal clock is recorded, in detail, to a log file. This information can be printed or used to generate a graphical plot of historical accuracy readings.
Supports the international date/time settings as defined in the Windows Control Panel.
Support for local half-hour time zones.
Works with any speed modem using the AT command set.
Supports the startup parameters (/AUTOSYNC) and (/AUTOADJUST) which will cause AccuSet to automatically adjust the time by either synchronizing with the desired atomic clock or by adjusting the clock based on its rated accuracy and then self-terminate.
Automatic disconnection if the selected service is unavailable.
Call waiting can be disabled during the synchronization process.
Users can choose between using the default generic or a user-defined modem initialization string. Hang-up strings are also user-configurable.
Displays the date and time of the last synchronization.
Can be registered via the CompuServe Software Registration Forum (GO SWREG)! AccuSet's registration ID number is 2407. Registered users will receive an access code that can be used to register all future versions of the program, free of charge.
Extremely low cost!
Copyright (c) 1994, Scott D. Kister, All Rights Reserved
New/Modified in Version 3.5:
Modified the Italian time service to reflect its new number (144-114-615). It should be noted that time time service is no longer available outside of Italy.
Added the ability to optionally display the date and/or time in the title bar of the active window when AccuSet is minimized. The format and placement of the date/time in relation to the title is highly user-configurable.
Added the ability to hide AccuSet's icon when minimized.
Added support for the Federal Institute of Physics and Metrology time service (based in Brunswick, Germany).
Added support for a new Candian NRC time service (based in Toronto, Canada).
Added the ability to optionally generate a tone through the PC speaker every second. This will allow for easier setting of watches, etc.
Modified the manual time adjustment section to optionally allow manual adjustments to be used as a basis for determining the clock's accuracy (as if a modem synchronization was performed).
Modified the manual time adjustment section to optionally freeze the time while the adjustment is being made.
Modified the Canadian Service to use either 300 or 1200 baud. The Canadian services and the BBC Dial-In Time Service now default to 300 BPS connections.
Expanded the list of pre-defined locations from 300 to nearly 3,000 cities around the world. The ease of city selection has also been improved by allowing cities to be selected by entering the first letter of the state or country.
Enhanced support for adjusting the color of AccuSet's LED displays.
Added the ability to start AccuSet with last viewed page.
Modified AccuSet to use an alternative method to display the simulated LED digital displays. This change will now allow users of high-end video boards which utilize greater than 256 colors to view the digital display.
Added the ability to override the Control Panel time formats (defined in the International section) when displaying time displays. Users may now choose to force AccuSet to display time in either 12 or 24 hour format.
Improved AccuSet's file handling support so that changing international settings between synchronizations no longer causes the "type mismatch" and "invalid control array index" error messages.
Added a message which reports when the modem has made a successful connection during a synchronization.
Added a message to indicate the telephone number of the service being called during a modem synchronization.
Improved the automated DST handling so that AccuSet can automatically compensate for DST while the program is running. DST support was also enhanced in the World Times section.
Fixed the registration form creator to display US funds, regardless of the international settings in the Control Panel.
Corrected a formatting problem which occurred if a large number was entered for the "seconds to wait until automatic disconnect" field.
Added the ability to automatically determine if the user is using 12-hour time, but does not have the AM and PM indicators properly defined in the international section of the Control Panel. If this case is detected, AccuSet will automatically make the necessary corrections to the WIN.INI's international settings and inform all other applications of the change.
Corrected problem with Daylight Savings Time calculations for countries spanning multiple time zones.
New/Modified in Version 3.0a:
Corrected a problem with the Telecom Australia Services which altered their date/time formats with the change in Australian DST.
