[WL-USERS] Adjusting Log Times???

[Ric Plummer]

Al,
Check the time zone you set your machine for.
GMT London does have Daylight Savings time.
GMT Montrovia does not, so use that one.
Hmmmm, BASIC programs...... I use Excel for manipulations and analysis, works
GREAT.
73, Ric KV1W


Maenchen Alan (ITC) wrote:

> Tks for this 'fix' Wayne,
>
> I didn't discover the time error until after the contest was over. I had set
> the DOS clock to GMT, and even selected the GMT time zone in Windows setup
> so I thought everything would be fine. The time shown in the lower right
> corner was correct, but WL offset that time by one hour in the log. Does GMT
> have daylight savings time???? I think the software is getting too smart.
> KISS !!
>
> Yesterday, I spent 2 hours writing a BASIC program to take the ASCII log and
> shift all the times by one hour. Side question: why does the ASCII log have
> lines with more than 80 characters?
>
> That said, this was my first time to use WL and it worked flawlessly. The
> packet functions were great!
>
> 73, Al  AD6E
>
> 1011 QSOs, 1.28 megapoints
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: W. Wright, W5XD [mailto:w5xd@alum.mit.edu]
> Sent: Monday, May 31, 1999 5:44 PM
> To: 'N1EU'; wl-users@wu3v.net
> Subject: RE: [WL-USERS] Adjusting Log Times???
>
> Just do what comes naturally.
>
> Bring up the log.
> Edit Select All.
> Click on the TIME of one of the QSOs.
> Change it to the correct time.
> Click OK.
> WL will ask if you want to shift your entire log.
>
> GL,
> Wayne, W5XD
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-wl-users@wu3v.net
> > [mailto:owner-wl-users@wu3v.net]On Behalf
> > Of N1EU
> > Sent: Monday, May 31, 1999 19:55
> > To: wl-users@wu3v.net
> > Subject: [WL-USERS] Adjusting Log Times???
> >
> >
> > I hope everyone had a blast in WPX cw.  I just got
> > WriteLog up & running with my Omni 6 Friday morning,
> > and I was very impressed with the software after
> > trying to scramble up the learning curve.
> >
> > Well one oversight of mine was discovering half-way
> > through the contest (duh) that WriteLog was adjusting
> > my computer clock from EDT to GMT.  That would
> > normally be appreciated, except my computer clock is
> > already GMT!!!
> >
> > So I now have a log with times that are off by 4
> > hours.  Before I go through the steps of exporting the
> > log & massaging the data in a database program
> > (Microsoft Access), just wanted to check if anyone
> > knows of a built-in WriteLog function to shift all
> > long entries by -4 hours?
> >
> > Tnx & 73,
> > Barry  N1EU
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