Does anyone really know what time it is?

[frenaye at pcnet.com]

I ran into two interesting articles in InfoWorld this week that may be 
useful to contesters:

Help Desk by Brett Glass (Infoworld, 11/11/96, page 40)
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"It's about time: ways to keep your server time, data accurate"

Ways to make sure your PC clock is set accurately.  He points an excellent 
reference at the National Institute of Science and Technology but has the 
URL wrong.  Here's the correct location:

	http://www.bldrdoc.gov/timefreq/pubs/hownist/hownis.htm


Notes from the Field by Robert X. Cringely (InfoWorld,11/11/96, page 110)
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Has a section in the middle that says:

	"... considering the way Windows 95 handles the Daylight Savings 
	Time clock reset.  If on that Sunday a few weeks ago [CQWW SSB] you 
	had been working at your computer at the stroke of 2 A.M., Windows 
	turned back the clock an hour, restting the time to 1 A.M.  Now if 
	an hour later you were still working away, Windows again set the 
	clock back 1 hour."

That probably explains why a few logs were scrambled!

		73 Tom

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>From trey at cisco.com (Trey Garlough)  Wed Nov 13 23:36:40 1996
From: trey at cisco.com (Trey Garlough) (Trey Garlough)
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 15:36:40 -0800
Subject: Does anyone really know what time it is?
Message-ID: <199611132336.PAA16186 at scv-cse-4.cisco.com>

> 	"... considering the way Windows 95 handles the Daylight Savings 
> 	Time clock reset.  If on that Sunday a few weeks ago [CQWW SSB] you 
> 	had been working at your computer at the stroke of 2 A.M., Windows 
> 	turned back the clock an hour, restting the time to 1 A.M.  Now if 
> 	an hour later you were still working away, Windows again set the 
> 	clock back 1 hour."
> 
> That probably explains why a few logs were scrambled!

This is the reason I always keep the clock on my logging computer set 
to UTC.

--Trey, N5KO

>From Fatchett.Mike at tci.com (Fatchett, Mike)  Wed Nov 13 23:56:06 1996
From: Fatchett.Mike at tci.com (Fatchett, Mike) (Fatchett, Mike)
Date: 13 Nov 1996 16:56:06 -0700
Subject: FW: FCC lied about Gate 2
Message-ID: <009B3328A601601E*/c=us/admd=attmail/prmd=tci/o=mailhub/ou=msmaildos/s=Fatchett/g=Mike/@MHS>



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From:  Fatchett, Mike
Sent:  Wednesday, November 13, 1996 4:39 PM
To:  (Bill Fisher KM9P)
Subject:  RE: FCC lied about Gate 2


I think to be fair to all involved the whole process should be re-run   
properly and random as the FCC stated it would.  I hope the ARRL would   
investigate this further, But knowing some of the odd things that have   
occurred with the ARRL and the FCC in the past I would not count on it.

I intend to inform my state Senator and Representative of this issue.  I   
am tired of the Government pulling these games whether it be with the FCC   
or other agencies.

I would suggest to anyone that feels similarly to call the FCC   
immediately.  From a conversation I had today I am the only one to call   
and question the random processing.

I encourage you all to look at the calls the electronic filers received.   
  N4CW, W4KK, W6DX, K6AM, N0DX, K0DX, K0AA, K6CQ and the list of   
desirable calls goes on and on.

I would sure hold off printing my QSL's until I had my printed license in   
my hand.

It is unfortunate that such and easy task could be messed up so badly.

Mike
W0MU

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>From nt5c at easy.com (John Warren)  Thu Nov 14 05:33:49 1996
From: nt5c at easy.com (John Warren) (John Warren)
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 00:33:49 -0500
Subject: 15M and 10M long path
Message-ID: <1364212432-13994 at BANJO.EASY.COM>

David Robbins K1TTT wrote:

  >...but if your ears are good you can pull out all sorts of
  >good stuff on 15m (and with some more flux even on 10m)
  >during this morning LP opening

I really enjoy 10M LP when the "spots are up", although rates are slow for
serious contesting.  We have two 10M LP openings here in Texas: The same
dawn path southeast to JA, VS6, BY, even KH6, and a better one south thro
west around midnight to Central Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa, etc.
Just for fun, I keep a separate 10M LP log - worked 16Z/35C from 1989-92.
If it didn't mean getting older, I'd be looking forward to 2000 !!

John, NT5C.