info-mac@uw-beaver (info-mac) (11/03/84)
From: Werner Uhrig <CMP.WERNER@UTEXAS-20.ARPA> both "mickey" and "minnie" needed to be told - lots of their friends here still get up an hour too early ..... (IBM 370s don't even know about "continuous time" after 'power-off') could some knowledgable hacker voice an opinion on what it would take to a) run the clock in Zulu (GMT) time? b) set the display to a time-zone chosen from a menu c) create some software that would automate the time-changes in spring and fall d) keep files with a date/time-stamp in Zulu, but displaying it in the chosen time-zone time, when listing a directory. e) keep the date and time permanently displayed on the screen, maybe as part of the menu-line. updating it once every minute would be quite sufficient. Maybe Apple ought to start a program where they offer $$$s to hackers who make small / neat programs available for public distribution by Apple. Sure would be good advertising and shouldn't cost more than a fraction of what they throw at TV and magazines for generating catchy "over-statements" -------