Subj : food, etc... To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Mon Jan 27 2020 10:03:00 Hi Nancy! 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. NB> I rarely at all use the linux, either... I have a spell sheet for NB> the basic commands to get into and out of there, along with the NB> likely couple of things I might be in there for... So far it's NB> just a couple of alternatives for web browsing... The Linux and Windows GUIs seem to be visually similar; Linux Terminal commands get a litle strange -- and then outright weird! I've tried to figure out some of the 'incantations' published on-line: some look like a random series of keyboard presses to create a switch option. Works, but I don't see some of those letters in the help (man/manual) to figure out what they do! 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. NB> So as long as you knew you'd just adjusted stuff, you could NB> reassure the virus checker that all was well... ;) Right. False positives are better than "meh". 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. NB> And, to my mind, generally more useful... Right: I generally don't need to do anything exactly at 4:29 p.m., though if I want to record _Jeopardy!_ at 4:30 the TV station and my MythTV system need to be time-synced. Even watching live I don't need to be 4:30:00 as I don't need to see the opening and introduction. 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. NB> After we get the same weather pattern for a couple of weekends, NB> it becomes old hat... and people stop worrying about running out NB> of the essentials after all.. :) (Or they already have a three NB> month supply from the first panic...) So I froze six loaves of bread, have two in the cabinet, tried to pawn off a bunch to the neighbours..... ¯ ® ¯ Barry_Martin_3@ ® ¯ @Q.COM ® ¯ ® .... Odd headline: New Study of Obesity Looks for Larger Test Group --- 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) .