Re: Last try for today Re: PC clock

From: Peter T. Daniels (grammatim_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 11/16/04 

Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 14:29:11 GMT

Jacques Guy wrote:
>
> Paul J Kriha wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> It didn't work

Yes it did.

> > I don't know what operating system
>
> WinMe.
>
> > you use or whether
> > your AUTOEXEC.BAT gets executed at all.
>
> Well, it must in some circumstances, because it
> contains this line, put there by Acronis OS
> Selector, which works:
>
> @\BOOTWIZ\reinstal.com
>
> > Some later
> > Windows have various equivalents of this file executed
> > every time a DOS window is envoked.
>
> Well, this time I have added SET TZ=... to the
> AUTOEXEC.WIN file, rebooted, tried to connect,
> got timed out. I rebooted, tried to connect, and
> this time it worked. Go figure. Now let's see
> was time stamp I get.

One hour and ten minutes later than Paul's message you were replying to.
(And almost an hour later than the current time.) Just move the counter
up or back one digit, and you'll be in sync. 

-- 
Peter T. Daniels                       grammatim@att.net

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