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- DX TIME
- (Version 1.0)
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- Overview -
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- This program will give you the current time in time zones
- around the world. It will also tell you if it's morning or
- evening and show the proper date. If you've been following
- current events and wondered what time it was in Baghdad, or
- maybe you were thinking about calling that mail order house in
- New York, or a relative in Chicago, or your office in Tokyo,
- or if you listen to the BBC out of London, or if you have any
- other reason to know the time in another part of the world,
- then this program is for you.
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- Installation -
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- You will need to copy DXTIME.EXE and DXTIME.DAT to the
- Windows directory on your hard disk. DX Time is written with
- Visual Basic version 2.0 and will require that you have a copy
- of VBRUN200.DLL in your Windows system directory. VBRUN200.DLL
- is available on Compuserve and should also be on your local
- computer bulletin board. After the necessary files have been
- installed you can use the new program option in Program Managers
- file menu to display an icon.
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- Basic Setup -
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- When DX Time is running you will see a window with six
- clocks and the current computer clock time displayed in the title
- bar. Clicking on any of the clocks will open a second window.
- At the bottom of the second window is a button labeled "Configure".
- Press the "Configure" button.
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- After the configuration window is open select a city in your
- time zone from the list of cities. If you can't find a city in your
- time zone you can edit the location box and the two time offset
- boxes to match your local time zone.
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- Now select "Save Configuration" from the configuration window.
- The selected city should now appear in the title bar of the clock
- window. If you would like for your own city to appear on the title
- bar you can edit the location box and press "Save Configuration".
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- You will also have to set for daylight savings time (summer
- time) or standard time by using the button on the bottom left of the
- cities window. The tile bar should now show a city in your time
- zone and the correct local time. Close the configuration window.
- DX Time will save your location so you won't have to enter it again,
- unless you move to a different time zone.
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- Once you've got DX Time properly configured for your location
- you can instantly change any of the clocks by clicking on the clock
- of your choice and then selecting a city from the options window.
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- It is also possible to change the clock label without changing
- the time. If you live in, say, Florida you can select New York to
- get the proper time zone and then edit the location box to read
- "Miami" or "Disney World" or "Eastern Time". When you close the
- cities window the new label will be saved as the name for that clock.
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- Advanced Use -
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- DX Time uses a data file called DXTIME.DAT. This is a
- standard ASCII file and can be edited with any text editor. If you
- do edit the data file you must save it in ASCII (plain text) format.
- Before you start messing around with the data file it would be a
- good idea to make a back up copy. Do not add any quotation marks
- or commas.
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- The data file consists of sixty lines. The first line is the
- local time zone. The next 50 lines are the locations listed on the
- cities menu. The last two numbers on each line are the standard
- and daylight savings hours offset from GMT (Greenwich Mean Time).
- If you edit these lines you must be very careful that the offsets
- are correct. The accuracy of the program is up to you. The next
- six lines hold the information for the six clocks and are changed
- each time a new time zone is selected. The last three lines are
- used to hold configuration information and are probably best left
- alone.
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