Re: PC clock, was: "The phoneme concept" [was: Re: Claims [was: Re: Drifting phonemes [was: Re: The AmE 'o' sound]]]

From: Jacques Guy (jguy_at_alphalink.com.au)
Date: 11/17/04 

Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 00:50:51 -0800

Paul J Kriha wrote:

> I don't believe the Jacques' problem is in Netscape. Netscape
> usually doesn't mishandle correctly set time and timezone offset.
> My guess would be timezone environment variable TZ incorrectly
> set in the Netscape's partition.
> (see my earlier note on setting TZ in autoexec.bat)

Well, let's see. There was no SET TZ in my autoexec.bat
file. I bought this machine with WinMe preinstalled and
I am sure there was no SET TZ then either. I saved an
image of the C: drive shortly after getting this PC, and
I suppose I could restore it just to see, out of rather
idle curiosity. But before I sends this off and see,
let me try a guess: Netscape 3.0 came in the days of
Win3, when you booted in true DOS mode, and you needed
a "WIN" command in AUTOEXEC.BAT to start Windows (I had
commented out that line, since, back then, not being
connected to the Net at home, I seldom used Windows,
only for printing and scanning). So I imagine that
Netscape did pay attention to AUTOEXEC.BAT, and
assumed that the Time Zone was California if it saw
no contrary SET TZ command.

That makes sense, doesn't it? I even have a vague
feeling that it might just work.

Fine... enough hypothesizing. Let's test it.

"Send"!