hi all
the general conclusion so far is it looks like the calendar is just poorly
designed and a dud for those of us who don't believe in daylight savings.
it is not clear to me where the time is determined from and no respondents
had a clue. indeed of the two responses i got, one thought i had my
computer time wrong - not the problem - and one asked if i had a solution
yet as he had the same problem.
i messed around with the calendar for a bit, and even setting an offset
from GMT produces notifications off by an hour, or changes all my entry
times. in other words, until the rest of the world goes back to normal
time, my calendar will be screwed up.
DEC/COMPAQ programmers this is something that needs fixing! it is a
definitely unnecessary crappy situation! it makes me unhappy and nervous
to think that a program so directly tied to the window manager (it is
located, by default, on the cde icon bar) doesn't have a clue as to what
time it is because it doesn't use the system time !!
ciao
claudia
original message:
> i have a rather pesky problem. arizona doesn't believe in daylight
> savings. this is normally not a problem for our dec alpha's - az has its
> own time zone line. everything i have ever seen works fine from this.
> until now of course. i have taken to using the calendar from the cde tool
> bar. since the time zone change for the rest of the US the calendar has
> been off by an hour for me in Az. for example, it pops up reminders an
> hour too early. i found that one can customize the time zone via the pull
> down menu (view/time zone). my time zone is listed as MST7MWT. the time
> zone setting lets me chose 'My Time' (the MST7MWT), or an offset from GMT.
> my three questions are:
>
> 1) why does the calendar not (default) follow the rest of the
> computer regarding the time? this seems ridiculous!
>
> 2) is the only way to get the right time to do an offset from GMT?
> or can i tell the calendar (like i tell the computer) that i am in
> arizona?
>
> 3) is there something i should have set up for the calendar to
> know the correct time zone?
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* Claudia *
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* Working on: a PhD in Physics and Astronomy *
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Received on Fri Apr 23 1999 - 17:07:22 NZST