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WorldTime - Version 1.0
By Frank A. Baffoni, M.D.
Help Document
WorldTime is a program designed to display the time in 60
places in various parts of the world.
This program requires at least 512k of RAM to run.
This program contains the following files:
WorldTime - The program
WorldTime.info - The program icon
Help.Doc & About.Doc - Program documentation files
NOTE: The program requires Help.Doc & About.Doc
or it will not run, so please keep these
files together with the program if you
distribute it to anyone!
Setting up the program:
To set up the program, place all the files in a drawer
named WorldTime on a floppy disk or hard drive.
Assign WorldTime: to the appropriate path where this
drawer resides on your floppy disk or hard drive. The
assign can be made each time from the shell before the
program is run or can be placed in the startup-sequence
of the S directory on the disk which you boot from.
The reference time:
All times are referenced against New York, which is set
equal to the system time of your computer's hardware clock.
The time is displayed in military (24 hour) time, where
00:00 is midnight, and 12:00 is noon.
Setting the reference time:
If you live in New York, or any other State in the United
States which is on Eastern Standard Time (EST), then just
set and save your system time to the correct time using
preferences, and all of WorldTime's clocks will display
their proper time.
If you live in a location which is not in the same time
zone as New York, then you must temporarily change your
computer's system time to the correct time in New York,
or none of the times on any of the clocks will be accurate.
To do this, just set your system time to the correct time
in New York from preferences and select "USE" (not "SAVE)
before you start WorldTime.
Future versions of this program may incorporate a way to
set the New York time inside of WorldTime, without changing
your system time. More time banks will also be added (sorry
if your particular geographic location isn't available yet).
Running the program:
The program consists of two time banks - each containing
thirty clocks. The name of each geographic location next to
it's time is a gadget - which will open a smaller window
displaying just the time for that particular location if
single clicked on with the left mouse button. To return to
that time bank, click on the close gadget in the small
window. To move to the next time bank, click on the arrow
gadget in the bottom right hand corner of the time bank.
There are three pull down menus, which are accessible
from either time bank: Help, About, and Quit. Help and
About give information about using and distributing the
program, respectively. Quit exits the program.
The number preceded by a + or - sign in each of the
location gadgets corresponds to the time in hours which
the location is ahead or behind New York, respectively.
A value of +0 indicates that the location has the same
time as New York.
By running several copies of WorldTime simultaneously, it
is possible to have several little time windows (each
displaying the time of a different geographic location)
open on your workbench screen. They will all be initially
superimposed over each other, but can be moved with the
mouse to any convenient location. The amount of RAM you
have in your computer is the major limiting factor to the
number of copies of this program you can run simultaneously.