TRAVEL CLOCK, the way to display different time zones on your computer without changing your computer's CMOS clock. Thanks for trying TRAVEL CLOCK. I wrote this Applet because I travel extensively with my notebook computer. I needed a way to have the time on the screen, without changing the computer's built in clock. Windows has the built in CLOCK program, but to change the time, you need to change your computer's CMOS clock. I thought that there must be a better solution, so I wrote TRAVEL CLOCK. What TRAVEL CLOCK does TRAVEL CLOCK allows you to quickly change a time and date display. TRAVEL CLOCK displays the time in 12 hour format (AM & PM). When you first start TRAVEL CLOCK on your computer, it defaults to the time and date in your computer's internal clock. When you change the time preference from the menu's, TRAVEL CLOCK will remember the last time zone that you selected. You need to set both the Home Time and the Travel Time. Home Time tells TRAVEL CLOCK what time zone your computer's clock is set to. MENUS You activate the menu by clicking on the TRAVEL CLOCK window with the RIGHT button. The first menu displays: HomeTime TravelTime Help About To select a menu item, you can either select with the left mouse button or the keyboard accelerator key (underlined). HomeTime lets you set the time zone that you computer's CMOS clock is set for. Selecting a time zone here will add an entry to your WIN.INI file under the [TravelClock] section. TravelTime lets you select the time zone that you want to see in TRAVEL CLOCK's window. Selecting one of the time zones here will add an entry to your WIN.INI file. WIN.INI File After you have run TRAVEL CLOCK and selected both a HomeTime and a TravelTime, TRAVEL CLOCK will start up with the last time zone you selected. It does this by adding lines to your WIN.INI file. TRAVEL CLOCK will only alter its own section of WIN.INI. The WIN.INI section is [TravelClock]. The entries for a computer set for Pacific Time and reading the time in Seoul, Korea are: HomeTZ=-8 StringConst=Pacific AwayTZ=9 The numbers after HomeTZ and AwayTZ indicate the differnce between the selected time zones and Universal Coordinated Time (UCT), which is the same as GMT. The first time you run TRAVEL CLOCK, it will default to the setting of your CMOS clock. REGISTRATION To help me continue to develop more Applet's I need to earn some money from my efforts. Therefore, please register this program by sending $10 to: Brooks Hurd 5643 Tamarisk Way San Luis Obispo, CA 93401-8277 USA Registration will allow me to offer you future upgrades, as well as other Applets that I develop in the future. TROUBLE SHOOTING I have run TRAVEL CLOCK on many different computers, both desk tops and notebooks without problems. TRAVEL CLOCK has run concurrently with many widely used apps, also without problems. I have not found any bugs in this release. TRAVEL CLOCK should not cause GPF's, since it does not perform some of the operations that cause them. SERVICE and UPGRADES If you have any questions about, or problems with TRAVEL CLOCK, please call me at (805) 545-8611 or contact me on CompuServe (73670,2730). This program's window is loosely based on Charles Petzold's DIGCLOCK, from his excellent book Programming Windows. I wrote TRAVEL CLOCK in Microsoft Quick C for Windows Ver 1.0. This has recently been superseded by Visual C++. The program occupies 16,600 bytes of memory, of which 7,800 is discardable (this is per Norton Desktop for Windows 2.2, System Information). By comparison, the Windows CLOCK Applet takes up 20,800 bytes of memory. SYSTEMS MENU To access the systems menu, click on the TRAVEL CLOCK window with the left mouse button to give it focus, then push Alt Space Bar. The systems menu will pop up. You can chose Move, and then use the cursor keys to place TRAVEL CLOCK anywhere on the screen.