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Originally e-mailed to the COPS, Homestead and MaiLink Mailing Lists on October 27, 2001. Printed in the January 2002 UCUGA Commodore Digest.

Fall Back in Time
Bruce Thomas

Yes, it is that time of year again. At least for most of us in North America that is.

The end of Daylight Savings Time. Tonight is when we regain that hour we lost when we set our clocks ahead in the spring.

I don't know about you, but I'm setting my clocks before I go to bed. That includes all of the clocks in my CMD Devices on my Commodore Computers.

Let's see, 2 - FD Drives, one SmartMouse, 1 - HD Hard Drive and one RAMLink. 5 devices. Lots of setting and trying to get them all close to the same time.

Unless you are a GEOS user. Then it is very easy.

Fire up GEOS, load GeoDOS V2.95, select the Tools Menu, from the System menu choose the 'Set GEOS RTC-Time' button.

GeoDOS scans your entire system looking for RTC Units. If you are running GeoDOS from GEOS 64 or Wheels 64 it will even find the clock in your SmartMouse (which is the time it should be displaying if you have one).

Press the Edit button at the top of the screen - a cursor will start flashing on the Date. Use the Left/Right Cursor keys to move the cursor down to the time and change it back one hour (and remember, if you are doing this in the middle of the night there is no hour 24 - use 00 instead). Once you have changed the time press Return.

If you want to verify that this actually works press the 'Get Time' button. Your system will be scanned again and the time will revert back to what it was. So set it again. Then press the 'Update' button. This will write the time out to your GEOS/Wheels System as well as to all of your CMD Devices. It also sends you back to the Main GeoDOS screen.

Have a look at the time display along the bottom of the screen and you will see that it has been changed to the time you set.

Now, to verify that all of your devices have been changed let's go back into the 'Set GEOS RTC-Time' option. This time, press the 'Get Time' button multiple times and watch as the time is displayed for each device on your system.

All in perfect sync and all set from one program.

Just one more little nicety of the miracle called GeoDOS.

note: Pressing the Up/Down Cursor key while in Clock Edit mode will change the Day of the Week.