Subj : Re: food, etc... To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Mon Jan 27 2020 03:30:48 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 19-Jan-2020 09:06 <=- 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 quite NB>> moot now, as that's been taken off this computer and replaced with NB>> some version of linux.... BM> Ah! Something good! You get to learn a new set of commands, BM> abbreviations and mnemonics: to open a Terminal it's "CAT": control BM> alt T. I rarely at all use the linux, either... I have a spell sheet for the basic commands to get into and out of there, along with the likely couple of things I might be in there for... So far it's just a couple of alternatives for web browsing... 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...! :) BM> "Wizzzzard!!" It was simply a yes-or-no popup but did BM> verify the utility was doing its job. So as long as you knew you'd just adjusted stuff, you could reassure the virus checker that all was well... ;) 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... BM> I usually do too, Generally don't need the exact-accuracy of digital BM> and the approximate-accuracy of analog is sufficient. And, to my mind, generally more useful... 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 doing NB>> some stocking up in preparation for the weather we got today... at NB>> least the parking lot was fuller than usual for Friday at that time NB>> of day... but inside wasn't that much busier that I could see.... ;) BM> They were all crammed into the bread aisle! I didn't hear nor BM> expect a follow-up on Sunday or Monday: "I told you so!". And this BM> weekend was a repeat weather-wise, though no admonishments. After we get the same weather pattern for a couple of weekends, it becomes old hat... and people stop worrying about running out of the essentials after all.. :) (Or they already have a three month supply from the first panic...) ttyl neb .... Eat right, exercise regularly, die anyway. --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .