Joseph, As I mentioned earlier, a lot of the daylight setting stuff can be tested really nicely if the users sets the time to 1:58 AM on the day that the time is suppose to change. It looks like that this is something that only happens on the mPower and must have been introduced in KeySoft 7.5, as for the exact Build number I am unsure as to that detail. There was no reports of the daylight setting be changed automatically in the past with prior versions of KeySoft. Vicky performed the test on both her mPower and PK running Build 27, So there must be something differing between the 7.5.27 for the PK and mPower.
Kevin -----Original Message----- From: Joseph Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 5:56 PM To: vicky collins; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] Subject: DST on the BN - few questions and comments for another study Hi Vicky and list, Then it's time for yet another study with the following questions of my own: * Does this "automatic change" occur with all units running 7.5 or is it just mPowers? * If the change occurs under KeySoft 7.5, what specific build introduced this algorithm - was it build 20, 27 or 28 (28 is for mPowers only)? * What happens if a user uses prior version of KeySoft such as 7.2 or 7.0? Does these versions change automatically to daylight saving time as well (including PK and Classic) or is it just mPowers running these versions? * What happens when the DST is over on first Sunday of November this year? Will the BrailleNote switch back to standard time (one hour back) automatically? Few misc comments of my own: * Since the new rules on DST (Daylight Saving Time) was enforced since 2007 (prior to that, it started on the first Sunday of April), there should have been a tiny announcement (or at least a sentence or two in the readme file) that described this feature. * This may sound like my first comparison of this year: other notable products used patches to allow the internal clock to adjust to the new DST rule, and the only ones that I know that have automatically switched to the new rule are computers that received updates and, in this case, only BrailleNote (mPower to be exact). Well, I guess answers to these questions may help us to narrow down what's going on here. Cheers, Joseph > ----- Original Message ----- >From: vicky collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Nick Cocchiarella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] are.com >Date sent: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:33:04 -0500 >Subject: RE: [Braillenote] Clock, daylight savings and the M Power >Well, I'm using KS 7.5 build 27 on both my PK and mPower. Just >now, I set each of the units to 1:58 AM on Sunday March 9 and >watched to see what would happen. I also did not tell KS they >were in daylight saving time when I changed the time. I then >watched the Braille display of each. The PK went from 1:59:59 to >2:00:00 and then 2:00:01. The mPower on the other hand went from >1:59:59 to 3:00:00 and then 3:00:01. >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: Nick Cocchiarella <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>To: Kevin Chao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,Bn List ><[email protected] >>Date sent: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:10:49 -0500 >>Subject: RE: [Braillenote] Clock, daylight savings and the M >Power >>My mPower only did it for the first time this year, it might be >>keysoft 7.5's biggest thing. >___ >Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. >If your reply would be useful to the list, please send a >copy to the list as well. >To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/br aillenote ___ Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. If your reply would be useful to the list, please send a copy to the list as well. To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
