[Virtualacorn-list] VA Clock problem

[Chris Newman]

In article <1b15c50853.Alan.Adams at laptop.adamshome.org.uk>, Alan Adams
<alan at adamshome.org.uk> wrote:
> In message <5308c45de8cvjazz at waitrose.com> Chris Newman
>           <cvjazz at waitrose.com> wrote:

> > G'day mates,

> > I'm holidaying/working here in Adelaide down under & have duly set my XP
> > laptop on to the correct time zone for Adelaide & on the Windows side the
> > time shows correctly.

> > However, in VA the time remains stubbornly British. I've tried re-setting
> > it manually both using !Alarms & ! Organizer but it just doesn't change.

> I suspect the problem is that changing timezone in Windows doesn't change
> the underlying clock - it justs adds an offset when displaying the time.
> Since RISC OS doesn't seem to have a way to set timezone (at least using
> Alarm *), you might have to set Windows to UK timezone, and then alter the
> time itself to make it look right. Not the best way to solve it, bit it
> should work.

Yep. That worked. However, I have Windows set to update time using a time
server so I wonder if it may interrogate the time server at some point &
re-set the time. I await events.

Thanks,

-- 
Chris