Hi Joseph and list,
My mpower did the change, but I didn't know it before I went to
change the time.
When I went in, it asked me if it was in daylight savings time
and said currently no.
When I said yes, the bn jumped forward still another hour.
Now, the bn was two hours ahead instead of one.
I fixed this, but have no idea what will happen when we go back
to regular time.
I haven't heard about this little surprise in any announcement,
or I wouldn't have bothered changing the time!
I find this interesting and wonder why it still said it wasn't in
dls when it had already moved ahead?
Also, what about places that don't have dls like Arizona?
Will the bn still skip ahead? Is there a way to turn this feature
on and off for people who don't need daylight savings time?
Interesting.
----- Original Message -----
From: Joseph Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: vicky collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],
[email protected]
Date sent: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:55:49 -0700
Subject: [Braillenote] DST on the BN - few questions and comments
foranother study
Hi Vicky and list,
Then it's time for yet another study with the
following questions of my own:
* Does this "automatic change" occur with all
units running 7.5 or is it just mPowers?
* If the change occurs under KeySoft 7.5,
what specific build introduced this algorithm
- was it build 20, 27 or 28 (28 is for
mPowers only)?
* What happens if a user uses prior version
of KeySoft such as 7.2 or 7.0? Does these
versions change automatically to daylight
saving time as well (including PK and
Classic) or is it just mPowers running these
versions?
* What happens when the DST is over on first
Sunday of November this year? Will the
BrailleNote switch back to standard time (one
hour back) automatically?
Few misc comments of my own:
* Since the new rules on DST (Daylight Saving
Time) was enforced since 2007 (prior to that,
it started on the first Sunday of April),
there should have been a tiny announcement
(or at least a sentence or two in the readme
file) that described this feature.
* This may sound like my first comparison of
this year: other notable products used
patches to allow the internal clock to adjust
to the new DST rule, and the only ones that I
know that have automatically switched to the
new rule are computers that received updates
and, in this case, only BrailleNote (mPower
to be exact).
Well, I guess answers to these questions may
help us to narrow down what's going on here.
Cheers,
Joseph
----- Original Message -----
From: vicky collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Nick Cocchiarella
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED]
are.com
Date sent: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:33:04 -0500
Subject: RE: [Braillenote] Clock, daylight
savings and the M Power
Well, I'm using KS 7.5 build 27 on both my PK
and mPower. Just
now, I set each of the units to 1:58 AM on
Sunday March 9 and
watched to see what would happen. I also did
not tell KS they
were in daylight saving time when I changed
the time. I then
watched the Braille display of each. The PK
went from 1:59:59 to
2:00:00 and then 2:00:01. The mPower on the
other hand went from
1:59:59 to 3:00:00 and then 3:00:01.
----- Original Message -----
From: Nick Cocchiarella
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Kevin Chao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,Bn
List
<[email protected]
Date sent: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:10:49 -0500
Subject: RE: [Braillenote] Clock, daylight
savings and the M
Power
My mPower only did it for the first time this
year, it might be
keysoft 7.5's biggest thing.
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