Kees vd Straten
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Alarm+Martin wrote on his site today:
" Like many diehard psioneers I'm sure, I was somewhat dreading the switch back to winter time. Depressed at the days drawing in? Distressed at getting home in the dark?? Nope, the thought of PsiWin insisting on a full backup once my Psion had switched back to winter was that which was filling me with trepidity! 1GB over a 115Kb/s serial link is a slooow thing...
I was slightly surprised therefore when I switched my netBook on on Sunday to find that the time was already correct. Sure enough I realised, AlarmPlus had done what I'd forgotten it would do and automatically adjusted the settings. I was however even more somewhat delighted this morning when I bit the bullet and decided to start the PsiWin backup. After churning away at its analysis for a few minutes, it started backing up - and told me that it'd take all of 4½ minutes to do it! Sure enough, it just did its incremental backup as normal! I can only assume therefore that an undocumented feature of AlarmPlus is that it adjusts the Summer Time settings in such a way that PsiWin doesn't think that the global time stamp has changed.
Excellent news! And reason enough to justify installing AlarmPlus just before the switchover dates in future for anyone that doesn't want to use it at any other time. "
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I thought that you knew everything about ER5 
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MartinG
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Re: Alarm+ | Kees vd Straten wrote: | | I thought that you knew everything about ER5 |
 All I truly know is that I don't know what I don't know.
Or, to quote Wernher von Braun: "Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. "
Martin
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ohsix
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Or - an expert is someone with a briefcase who is at least 50 miiles from home.
Keith
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JonB
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ExpertsAn expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he (or she) knows absolutely everything about nothing.
Fortunately Martin, and the rest of us, aren't quite experts yet 
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