paul@greipa.UUCP (Paul A. Vixie) (05/13/85)
I think the easiest thing to implement (certainly all that needs to be done on a single-user micro) is the GMT/CUT offset. No need to put any more logic into the clock-tick routine; just add or subtract (with wrap from 0..23) a certain number of hours when returning the system time from a ROM call. In fact, since there are some free bytes in the battery-backed-up RAM, and the ROM jump table is loaded into RAM, and it is (obviously) possible to write a desk accessory to fiddle this extra byte of information, We Don't Need To Wait For Apple To Implement This. If someone does it and it gets distributed widely, Apple will put it into the mac eventually (look at the new DA/Font Mover for an example of where Apple gets lots of their ideas). I would try this hack myself, but my only language (so far) for my mac is Modula-2, which generates M-Code.
jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler) (05/14/85)
In article <195@greipa.UUCP> paul@greipa.UUCP (Paul A. Vixie) writes: >I think the easiest thing to implement (certainly all that needs to be done >on a single-user micro) is the GMT/CUT offset. No need to put any more logic >into the clock-tick routine; just add or subtract (with wrap from 0..23) a >certain number of hours when returning the system time from a ROM call. > I on the other hand think that the simplest possible interface is: 1) Select Alarm Clock from Apple Menu 2) Click on mailbox flag 3) Click on clock face 4) Select (with mouse) hours digits 5) Click once on either the forward, or the backward arrow 6) Click the close box -- Jim Budler Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (408) 749-5806 UUCPnet: {ucbvax,decwrl,ihnp4,allegra,intelca}!amdcad!jimb Compuserve: 72415,1200 "... Don't sue me, I'm just the piano player!...."