Subj : food, etc... To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Sun Jan 19 2020 09:06:00 Hi Nancy! 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. NB> Dunno... I would have been using Win95 at the time.... and it's NB> quite moot now, as that's been taken off this computer and NB> replaced with some version of linux.... Ah! Something good! You get to learn a new set of commands, abbreviations and mnemonics: to open a Terminal it's "CAT": control alt T. 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. NB> Glad that's not happened on my machine...! :) "Wizzzzard!!" It was simply a yes-or-no popup but did verify the utility was doing its job. 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"!! NB> Sometimes I just convert back to analog... I usually do too, Generally don't need the exact-accuracy of digital and the approximate-accuracy of analog is sufficient. 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. NB> Too bad people weren't listening to him (being already in the NB> stores)... yesterday, it did seem as though perhaps people were NB> doing some stocking up in preparation for the weather we got NB> today... at least the parking lot was fuller than usual for NB> Friday at that time of day... but inside wasn't that much busier NB> that I could see.... ;) They were all crammed into the bread aisle! I didn't hear nor expect a follow-up on Sunday or Monday: "I told you so!". And this weekend was a repeat weather-wise, though no admonishments. ¯ ® ¯ Barry_Martin_3@ ® ¯ @Q.COM ® ¯ ® .... Microsoft: the vendor everyone loves to hate! --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 þ wcECHO 4.2 ÷ ILink: The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .