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Subject: [WriteLog] Log in GMT
From: punkymcd@pacbell.net (punkymcd@pacbell.net)
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 21:07:18 -0700
I'm curious. Why is there five identical messages coming from W0SD. All
with the same date and time?

73, Don, W6OA

Ed Gray W0SD wrote:
> 
> Wayne W5XD
> 
> I believe we are almost there!  OK my computer is set for central time zone
> and checked for daylight saving time so I get the message in fall and
> spring.  The time is set to local time and date.  Down in the lower right
> corner is local time and if I double click on it then I can also see
> today's local date.
> 
> When I use Writelog and log stations the time is in GMT which I like.  I
> get the impression from what you write that this is not true and that the
> only way the log times are in GMT is if I have my computer set to GMT?
> This seemed to be the way it was at W7XU as I had to set his computer to
> the GMT time zone and also GMT time and date to get it to log in GMT.  What
> is "MAGIC" that my computer is set for local all the way but logs in GMT
> time and Date?
> 
> Just to be sure I am not losing it I opened WRITELOG and started a new file
> and selected the ARRL VHF QSO party.  I then logged a call and info and
> entered it.  The time is 0257z July 10, 2000 in the log.  My computers time
> of 9:57 p.m. July 9, 2000.  I like that it did not work that way at W7XU I
> would swear!
> 
> 73, Ed W0SD
> 
> Ed Gray
> 43804 257 Street
> Salem, SD 57058-5907 USA
> w0sd@rapidnet.com
> 
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