From: Andrew Scott Beals (bandy_at_ricochet.net)
Date: Fri May 12 2000 - 19:26:06 EDT
David Goldman wrote:
> On Fri, 12 May 2000, Andrew Scott Beals wrote:
> > Speaking of GPS, anyone know of a little program that I could run to set
> > the clock on my thinkpad? I'm pretty sure that Street Atlas USA does
> > NOT do that, which is totally dumb.
>
> Two suggestions:
>
> 1) Since you've got a wireless modem (as evidenced by your e-mail address)
> why not go to www.winfiles.com and download one of the Internet clock
> setting shareware packages (like Atomic Time)?
Yes, thank you.
>
>
> 2) Be part of the solution instead of part of the problem... write to
> Delorme and suggest the feature as an improvement for the next
> version.
Tried to find an email address and they don't publish one! I signed up to be
on their "evaluate new features" list, but haven't heard jack from them. I
also want the same functionality on my Pilot.
Maybe it's time to revert to paper and pencil....
andy
ps. Or ther other solution would be to hack the protocol and write a
clock-setter..their advantage is that they know lat/lon so could calculate
time zones [&dst] automatically!
>
>
> --
> David Goldman
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