(meteorobs) OT- Changing Sentinel to show Universal Time.

stange stange34 at sbcglobal.net
Fri Sep 5 15:00:55 EDT 2008


Thankyou, I will shift 3 UT computers over to Casablanca,  and double check 
my GOTO's. Hope everyone followed your post. -Larry


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Peterson" <clp at alumni.caltech.edu>
To: "Global Meteor Observing Forum" <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Sent: 2008/09/05 11:51
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) OT- Changing Sentinel to show Universal Time.


> It's not really a flaw, it's just that they shouldn't call the three
> available settings that happen to be in the offset=0 zone "GMT". And it
> wouldn't hurt if they added a UT category to avoid confusion. But the
> Casablanca trick is well known among astronomers who want their telescopes
> and computers to keep UT.
>
> Chris
>
> *****************************************
> Chris L Peterson
> Cloudbait Observatory
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>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "stange" <stange34 at sbcglobal.net>
> To: "Global Meteor Observing Forum" <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
> Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 12:44 PM
> Subject: Re: (meteorobs) OT- Changing Sentinel to show Universal Time.
>
>
>> Thankyou Chris. I was unaware that Wndows XP contained a flaw with
>> Greenwhich Mean Time selection being over ridden by any inclusion of
>> Dublin's daylight savings status.
>>
>> Microsoft should look into this and make a correction if it effects GMT.
>>
>> To date I have not had a problem of a sudden time shift.
>> YCSentinel
>
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