Subj : Re: food, etc... To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Sun Jan 19 2020 03:19:28 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 12-Jan-2020 17:14 <=- BM>> I'm not sure how accurate my computers are: all connected to the BM>> network and so on to the Outside World where they can ask their BM>> favourite time server for the time. No idea when or how often -- IIRC BM>> Windows XP asked once a week and there were occasions when I noticed BM>> the system time was off from real time by a minute. NB>> By staying in DOS, I don't have Windows trying to "update" to DST when NB>> I'd just as soon stay in EST.... back when I'd use a graphics program NB>> for which I needed to use Windows, it always would change the time NB>> on me... ;) BM> I think the DST option could have been turned off. ...For XP it's in BM> the Date and Time Properties GUI setting, Time Zone tab -- under the BM> world map is "[x] Automatically adjust clock for daylight saving BM> changes". Untic should have done the job for you. Dunno... I would have been using Win95 at the time.... and it's quite moot now, as that's been taken off this computer and replaced with some version of linux.... BM> I do recall a few times when I'd turn the monitor on and an error BM> message was appearing because the antivirus utility was thinking BM> something was attempting to take over the machine because the time had BM> been changed externally. Glad that's not happened on my machine...! :) BM>> Right now comparing the computer's time to the 'atomic clock' in the BM>> desktop weather station unit the times are off by about two seconds. BM>> Which clock is right, or more right, I don't care. NB>> That's not off by much, for either one of them, after all... :) BM> Right: rather 'tight' for both of them. What's funny is one (OK, me!) BM> didn't get all that detailed with analog: "quarter to six, fine". Now BM> with digital "it will be 5:47 in 18 seconds"!! Sometimes I just convert back to analog... BM>> later today. Temperture supposed to get into the upper 30's but feel BM>> like the lower 30's with the breeze. Maybe snow flurries in the next BM>> few days but nothing major (so better stock up on toilet paper and milk BM>> before the storm hits! ). NB>> Stocking up before the crowd thinks it should be done is probably NB>> the most efficient... and the most likely to succeed.... ;) Just NB>> don't get so much milk it goes bad before you use it all up... ;) BM> It was kind of funny as on the local news (KWQC, which formerly was BM> WOC-TV) the meteorologist was semi-rambling about the upcoming BM> snowstorm (the one we had Saturday) and how people were mobbing the BM> grocery stores to buy stuff. He did advise not going out Saturday but BM> the roads and everything would be clear for Sunday, go shop then. Too bad people weren't listening to him (being already in the stores)... yesterday, it did seem as though perhaps people were doing some stocking up in preparation for the weather we got today... at least the parking lot was fuller than usual for Friday at that time of day... but inside wasn't that much busier that I could see.... ;) ttyl neb .... Hey, look! A completely new undocumented fea&%$#*@ NO CARRIER --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .