Bill,

Thanks for giving us this line of code to insert in Guide.txt. My
Guide 8 U.T. is reading correctly adding the proper 5 hours to EST that
my PC clock is set to.

Thanks much,

Tom

Bill J Gray wrote:

>
>
> Hi Tom, all,
>
> One small correction: the file 'guide.dat' may, or may not,
> have a line that reads
>
> TOFFSET=1
>
> If it _does_ have that line, remove it. If it lacks a TOFFSET
> line, insert one.
>
> In some cases, the time error in Windows runs the other way,
> and one has to use TOFFSET=-1. In theory, if you had a two-hour
> error, you would use TOFFSET=2 (or TOFFSET=-2), and so on. I
> don't recall anything but one-hour errors, though.
>
> Guide does _not_ attempt to correct for Daylight "Saving" Time.
> It reads the system time. Unfortunately, that's not always
> reliable, as you're discovering. There are also some odd one-hour
> errors of a sort I've yet to figure out, that don't actually seem
> to have anything to do with Daylight "Saving" Time.
>
> There was a known issue with the switch last March. That doesn't
> affect the November switchover, though.
>
> -- Bill
>

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