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From: philip@Kermit.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.wanted
Subject: Re: 24-Hour FKEY?
Message-ID: <1990Jun14.170906.18278@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 14 Jun 90 17:09:06 GMT
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In article <1119@mtunq.ATT.COM>, ralph@mtunq.ATT.COM (Ralph Brandi) writes:

> 
> Okay, here's a beastie I'd find very helpful, but have never seen:
> I could really use an FKEY that would switch my Mac between 12 and
> 24 hour time.  I have an application that requires 24 hour time, but
> everyone else who uses the computer here prefers 12 hour time in the
> menu bar (SuperClock! is a wonderful program....)  It's a pain to
> have to open the Control Panel every time I run this program, and
> life would be much easier if I could just hit a couple of keys and
> change the time...

Couldn't you use a macro program to record "open Control Panel and
select 24hr"? (To be fair to the other users, of course you would want
to have a keystroke to revert to 12hr.) I haven't used macro programs -
can anyone else comment?

Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu