Fri, 9 Jan 2004 15:11:42 -0800 (6:11 PM EST here) Januk Aggarwal wrote: > On Friday, January 9, 2004 at 12:49 GMT -0600, dancing erupted as > Terry L Fritts tapped:
>>> involve a short plugin macro that just reads & returns the info >>> from the Windows registry (it must be there somewhere). I haven't >>> yet attempted to learn how to make plugins, so that's why I sent >>> Dan here. >> can be obtained from registry - see: >> "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation" > Dan, > you can use the MyMacros plugin, > <http://en.barin.com.ua/soft/mymacros/>. Specifically, the %RegRead > macro would seem to be your best bet. You can get the ActiveTimeBias > registry entry: > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation\ActiveTimeBias > That should give you the offset in minutes. From there, you can use > a simple %IF statement to convert it into either the standard time > or daylight time acronym. > It'll be much easier than the complicated mess of templates we had > before. Thanks Terry and Januk for starting me thinking again. The downloaded MyMacros plugin's %RegRead did make the whole local time zone thing MUCH more straightforward. Then I started thinking about the "AOL anomaly." I decided that the AOL anomaly really was the Dan Grunberg anomaly. I changed my system of templates, eliminating the "GMT" that used to appear in: "Fri, 9 Jan 2004 15:11:42 GMT -0800 (6:11 PM EST here) Januk wrote:" Now what appears is: "Fri, 9 Jan 2004 15:11:42 -0800 (6:11 PM EST here) Januk wrote:" Now, when I answer an AOL originated message, what appears is: "Wed, 5 Nov 2003 07:48:30 EST (7:48 AM EST here) AOLuser wrote:" Using: The Bat! v2.02.3 CE Windows 2000 v5.0 - Build 2195 - Service Pack 4 -- Daniel A. Grunberg Kensington, Maryland, USA homepage: www.nyx.net/~dgrunber/ ________________________________________________________ http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
