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PH WORLD CLOCK ver 1.1
by William Wong, Apr 1993
ProbeHouse Software
"Another brilliant piece of utility from PHSW" - Drovak.
"My worldwide Embassies better open on time now that I know exactly
the time with this PHSW clock" - Yeltsin
Introduction
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The PH World Clock is a ST program that will display both the local time
and the time of the place of your selection. Over 50 world major cities
are programmed into the world clock. The day and date of the local time
is display along with the day of the international time.
Program or Desktop accessory
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PH World Clock is both a GEM program and a Desktop Accessory.
To use as a GEM program, rename extension to .PRG
To use as a Desktop Accessory, rename extension to .ACC
Display
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The World Clock is displayed in a window. You can move the window around
the desktop with the mouse. The local time is display on the top line and
the city of choice time is displayed on the bottom line.
What's new in ver 1.1
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1/ The minutes calculation now enhenced.
2/ Saving the preference now saves the window position.
Commands
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When World Clock is topped (ie the top most window) the following keyboard
keys are active :
Left/Right arrows - Scroll the displayed city.
CTRL-L/R arrows - Scroll the displayed local city.
Alt-S - Save current preference to disk.
Alt-R - Reset/Read the saved preference.
Alt-X - Quit from PH World Clock.
A to Z - Change to the city beginning with that alphabet.
CTRL- A to Z - Change to the local city beginning with that alphabet.
HELP - Display the help menu, only need to remember this
command !!
Preference
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The preference of World Clock saved are the local and internation city,
the position of the world clock window.
This is saved in a file called PHWCLK.CFG in the \PHSTUFF folder. This
folder is automatically created by the save function on the current drive.
Please make sure that your current drive is your bootup drive when saving.
If no preference file is found, the local time defaults to Singapore and
international time, the 1st city in the list.
List of cities in World Clock
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If your city is not listed, let me know the city name, time away from
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and sent it to address in next section.
Amsterdam, Ankara, Auckland,
Baghdad, Bahrain, Bangkok, Barbados, Barcelona, Beirut, Berlin,
Bermuda, Bombay, Brisbane, Buenos Aires,
Cairo, Calcutta, Chicago,
Darwin, Delhi, Dusseldorf <-----CEBit fame
Frankfurt,
Geneva,
Hong Kong, Honolulu,
Johannesburg,
Karachi, Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait,
Lagos, London,
Madrid, Mauritius, Montreal, Moscow,
Nairobi, New York,
Oslo,
Paris, Peking, Perth,
Rangoon, Rio De Janeiro, Rome,
San Francisco, Sydney, Singapore <-------- I'm here !
Teheran, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Toronto,
Vancouver, Vienna,
Warsaw, Washington,
Zurich,
There is always another Bug
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or
Oh, that's a feature of this program
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If you find any bugs in this program, please let me know.
This program was written in Pure C on a colour, Tos 2.06, 4 Meg 520STFM
with a Supra 44 meg Syquest HD system. PH World Clock was also tested on
on Tos 1.02, Tos 1.04 and MiNT 1.04b as a DA.
A new version is being planned. This includes the capability to change the
local time city name to that of your city.
Another Public domain software
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Yes this is another one of PHSW Public domain software. So here it goes
again ...
If you like this software or use it more than 3 minutes, I expect you
to show your appreciation by sending me a mail or some useful stuff like
CDs, magazines (any type that a male would enjoy seeing), US dollars,
NEW T-shirts, ST hardware or software, Syquest cartdriges (44 Meg please),
cheque with your proper signature, US dollars, COE, Falcon 030, video
tapes (as with the magazines), Hi-Fi set and US dollar notes.
Please sent all your goodies to -
William Wong
CC 5129,
Blk 990, Bendemeer Road,
Singapore 1233,
Republic of Singapore.
MCI mail : 4673356
BBS : Clavis
(065)-444-2376 [ this belongs to a friend of mine ]
If you somehow would like to register this software, please pay in US
traveller cheque of US$10, signed correctly for outside Singapore or in
Singapore, S$15. Registered users will get the source code as well as
the latest version (if any) send to them in a good condition diskette.
Please include your postal address.
Ciao, Have fun.