Everyone, please check your timezone settings!

[Brett Dikeman <brett@pdikeman.ne.mediaone.net>]

A friendly note to listers, please check that:

a)if your time zone is observing Daylight Savings Time, your computer knows
this(most currently are right now.)

b)your time zone is set correctly.  Many people do not ever bother to set
the timezone; this is fine until you send an email message(which has the
timezone recorded along with the date+time.)

It makes following threads much easier if everyone's date/time/timezone is
set correctly, not to mention it will confuse business peoples you
communicate with if the date is messed up.  Note: Just because your
computer says "9pm" and it's 9pm does NOT mean it knows what time it is.
It could think it was in England, in which case when a fellow like me in
Boston reads it, my email program will think you wrote the message around,
let's see, 5pm, I think.

Being anti-PC, I can't really describe the Windbloze 95 procedure, but I
bet there's a Date/Time control panel and the procedure is very
similar(since Billy stole most of Win95 from the Mac anyways.)

For macs, here's a set of instructions I gave to a fellow lister:

Open the "Date & Time" control panel(from the Apple menu for the novices.)

Click on "Set Time Zone..."
Then just pick the nearest major city in the same timezone as you(for me,
it was Boston.)

Oh, and after you do that, make sure "Daylight Savings Time" is checked.

You'll now have to fix the hour back to what it should be in the "current
time" area(Macs assume that if you move the timezone from Boston to
California, you moved the computer, in which case the "wrong" time would
actually be correct.)

Done!  Make sure your email program is closed when you do this.  Eudora
does not take kindly to sudden multi-hour time shifts(especially backwards
ones) and starts asking you if you want to rebuild all your mailboxes :o|


Thanks everyone!

Brett

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