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

From: Paul J Kriha (paul.nospam.kriha_at_paradise.net.nz)
Date: 11/16/04 

Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 03:07:48 +1300

Jacques Guy <jguy@alphalink.com.au> wrote in message news:419B10EB.2B61@alphalink.com.au...
> 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.

Nope, Netscape doesn't pay attention to AUTOEXEC.BAT.
When Netscape starts it examines environment variables
in existence at the time. If TZ exists it reads its contents.
If it doesn't, it assumes a default internally defined by its
Netscape's programmers.

Traditional way of setting the environment variables was
to have SET commands included in AUTOEXEC.BAT which
used to get automatically executed after the machine was
booted.

I don't know what operating system you use or whether
your AUTOEXEC.BAT gets executed at all. Some later
Windows have various equivalents of this file executed
every time a DOS window is envoked.

Paul JK

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

it didn't

> Fine... enough hypothesizing. Let's test it.
>
> "Send"!

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