On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Karl Oyster <k...@cox.net> wrote: > I've noticed quite a few times that when the Zulu day changes (7:00pm EST > now) that the spots which come in after that time wind up at the "back" or > "top" of the list of spots. For example, a spot timed/dated 23Nov09 @ 2355 > is at the bottom of the window with incoming spots. A few minutes later, say > 10 minutes, another spot comes in dated/timed 24Nov09 @ 0005, and rather > than being at the bottom of spots window (where common sense would indicate > as the correct place, it is at the top and consequently is not visible in the > normally sized window. Even if the window is maximized, it will still be out > of sight. I have my computer set for Eastern Standard Time (rather than zulu > time) and I wonder if this is the issue. If so, it's something which should > be modified in DX4W as most of the other ham-related software I use works by > adding/subtracting hours to/from the local time in the computer and then > displays the Zulu time. > > Is this just me (and my computer) or does this happen routinely with other > folks? And, if so, what do you do about it???
What version of DX4WIN are you running? How are your spots sorted, by time or by arrival? I have my computer set to local time (not UTC) and have NOT seen this problem, either in 1-land or 0-land. I sort spots by time. There are cases where a SH/DX command that does NOT contain the date of the spots, done well after the date change, can cause the spots to be sorted incorrectly. For example, if it's 12z, and a SH/DX command shows spots from late in the previous day, but the spots don't contain a date field, DX4WIN will assume they are for the current day, and will sort by only the TIME field accordingly. Now this doesn't make a lot of sense (to allow spots "from the future"), but the clock on some cluster nodes is off by a few minutes +/-, so this can happen. But that's an extreme case, and doesn't sound like it's the case with your spots. If you use the VE7CC front-end, you can configure the spots sent to your logging program to always be in the SH/DX format (including the date), such the problem you describe can not occur. But as I said, I don't do this, and my spots are sorted as expected. 73 - Jim AD1C -- Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreis...@alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us ______________________________________________________________ Dx4win mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Dx4win@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
