>>>>> On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:22:57 -0500, David Kleber <[email protected]> >>>>> said:
> A while back, I suggested that upon startup of FLDIGI, a window pop up > showing the current time and date that the computer is set to. This > could appear with a question, "Is your time and date correct" and a yes > to continue... maybe clicking no would take you to where you can make > the correction. Perhaps there could be somewhere in the program that > this could be disabled for those who just can't stand the idea. This is a pretty easy problem to solve without involving fldigi. If your machince is connected to the internet, you can just set up an NTP client and forget about the issue. It will keep your clock to within a few milliseconds of the NTP server, accounting for drift and avoiding large increments. Here are some instructions for Windows: http://www.boulder.nist.gov/timefreq/service/pdf/win2000xp.pdf On Linux systems you would install the ntp package. > I think for EmComm, this could become a very important issue, especially > when logging incoming wrap files during an actual emergency deployment. > Its pretty important to know that your messages are logged with the > correct time and date. Then you should make good timekeeping part of your SOP. NTP is the simplest solution. It's much better for fldigi to assume that the time is correct and let specialised software deal with setting it, because that's usually a privileged operation that cannot be done in a system independent manner. -- 73, Stelios, M0GLD. _______________________________________________ fldigi-alpha mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/fldigi-alpha
