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From: tron@wpi.wpi.edu (Richard G Brewer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Wish List item for HyperCard 2.0
Keywords: Buttons, icons, shapes, fonts
Message-ID: <1793@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 8 Apr 89 15:50:49 GMT
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Reply-To: tron@wpi.wpi.edu (Richard G Brewer)
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA. USA
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Well, this isn't exactly a wish for HC 2.0, BUT I think that it a relivant
wish (for conveinence, if nothing else :^) ). I would like to the the US
version of the Macintosh Software automatically recognize and compensate for
daylight savings time (i.e. automatically turn the clock forward/back). I
can't see why this hasn't been done before, all it would take would be a
couple of extra flags in the system software (to determine if the clock change
has already been done), and a line of code to tell the machine to set the
clock forward/back. 

In a generic code, it would look like this:


procedure check date
	if Date = first sunday in april continue else skip
		if TurnBackFlag = 0 continue else skip
			turn clock ahead one hour
		end procedure

after the day passes (i.e. any other day besides the turn forward/back dates)
the flags would be set back to zero.

- Richard G. Brewer

tron@wpi.wpi.edu
rbrewer@wpi.bitnet