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Pour continuer dans la série des très utiles DAs que l'on doit au créatif Koichi Terada, mentionnons l'entrée dans la sélection de logiciels de World Clock DA, également en freeware (GPL).

Parmi les nombreux DAs qui permettent l'affichage du jour et de l'heure sans quitter l'application en cours, World Clock DA apparaît comme un choix tout particulièrement recommandable.



Comme son nom l'indique, il va au-delà de la simple heure locale et permet d'afficher simultanément 2 villes différentes avec gestion du passage à l'heure d'été. Simple mais très complet, vous pouvez ajouter les villes de votre choix et, lors d'un déplacement, modifier temporairement l'heure de votre machine. Dans ce domaine, c'est sans doute le DA parfait pour les voyageurs.


Site de Koichi Terada, l'auteur, en Anglais

Fiche de World Clock DA (Sélection de logiciels)

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L'auteur indique que ce DA n'est pas censé fonctionner sur les Sony. Un comble !


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wclock DA 1.1

World Clock DA (Free software)
Copyright © 1999-2002 by Koichi TERADA, All Rights Reserved.

1. Overview

This program "wclockDA" is tiny world clock. It displays two clocks on
the Palm's screen and these clocks can set to deferent time zones.
That's it.

This wclockDA is a DA (Desk Accessory) program. So, to use this, the
launcher program that can launch a DA program, likes "DA Launcher", is
required. Please refer to Yamada-san's web (http://www.tt.rim.or.jp/~
tatsushi/) to know about "DA Launcher" and also refer to
Yamakado-san's web (http://member.nifty.ne.jp/yamakado/da/) to know
about the DA itself.

2. How to use

Launch wclockDA by the launcher program.

There is "Local" popup menu on the upper screen. Select your local
time zone in the menu. For example, if you are staying in Tokyo,
select "(+0900) Tokyo" in the menu. The time information that is
managed by PalmOS will be set to the local field. The date and time
formats that are choose in the [Prefs -> Formats] will be used.

There is "Dest." popup menu on the mid screen. Select the time zone
that you would like to know about the local time. For example, to know
about the local time of London, select "(+0000) London" in the menu.

The popup menu contains the hourly offset from the GMT and a major
city name that locates on the time zone. (Now, you can modify the
city's name on the popup menu as you'd like. The detail is in next
section.) If you can not find the city name that you are looking for,
please check the time zone of the city by the another way (i.e., tour
guide books, world map, etc.), because wclockDA does not know the time
zone for all cities in the world!

There are "DST" checkboxes for each "local" and "dest." fields. You can
check these checkboxes to assume the selected time zone is using the
Daylight Saving Time right now. If they are checked, the local time
forwards one hour from the standard time. wclockDA supports only the
"one hour forwarding" Daylight Saving Time. So even if some countries
use "half hour forwarding" DST (I don't know!), wclockDA does not
support it. Also, the DST checkbox is not checked automatically.

There are [Fwd][Bck] buttons on the bottom screen. You
can forward/backward the displayed time hourly by these buttons within
plus/minus 23 hours. For example, press [Fwd] button four times, then
you can see the local time of Tokyo and London in four hours future.
You can use the hardware Up/Down buttons instead of [Fwd][Bck] buttons.
This "offset" function is useful to know the destination time in some
future (or past).

By the choosing Menu -> Flight To command, wclockDA will swap the local
time and dest. time, then adjust the PalmOS's system clock to the new
local time. This is useful when you flight to the dest. city from the
local city.

To modify the city's name on the popup menu, you have to prepare the
city list file that contains all city's name on the popup. FYI, this
archive also contains the list file for the default setting, and more.
The first line of the list must be the fixed format, likes "[DAWC any_
comment_strings]". All lines after the second line should have the
cities name, and may have the timezone information. See the archived
list files. (Note, "DAWC" is the creator ID of wclockDA application.)

Put your favorite city list to Memopad on your palm device, and make
the category of the memo to "Prefs". (Maybe you also have to make the
new category itself that named "Prefs".) Then, launch wclockDA and
select Menu -> Option -> Import Cities Name. wclockDA will search the
memo that has "[DAWC" heading line and replace the popup by the new
city names that you defined. NOTE, after the restart of wclockDA,
these new city names will appear on the popup.

The specification of the list file is following:

- Ignore the first one line. This line must be "^\[DAWC.*\]*" ,
as Perl.
- The other lines may be "^[+-][0-1][0-9][0-5][0-9] .*" format. If
so, it contains the timezone data and the city name. If not, it
contains just the city name (use with the default timezone).
- In default, the second line is for "+1300", the third line is for
"+1200", and so on. (The 26th line is for "-1100".)
- The minimum unit of timezone is one minute. (not fifteen minutes!)
- Max characters for the city name is 16 ascii char. The 17th and more
characters will be ignored.
- If your list has less than 26 lines, some of popup menu will keep
the original city names.
- Ignore the 27th and more lines.

To quit wclockDA program, press [Done] button, tap the outside of the
wclockDA window, or launch the other application.

All parameters will be kept on when you launch wclockDA next time,
except the "offset" parameter. The offset parameter will be cleared to
zero.

3. Limitation

There are no warrantee nor guarantee for this program. You can use
this just at own risk.

4. Special Thanks

I referred the source files of Yamakado-san's daSecurity and
Yamada-san's (Hacker Dude-san) acDateClock to create this program.
Thank you for them, and also for many people who have send their
cool messages about this program.

5. History

1.1.1 6/16/2002
No Change (under GNU GPL license)

1.1.0 5/10/00
Add the "Flight-To" function

1.0.0 3/20/00
Fix the possible bug for the doubly import of the city names list.
Fix the misspelling on the sample list file.

0.9.9beta 1/07/00
Add the timezone modification feature.
Also, support the non-hourly timezones.

0.9.8zeta 12/29/99
Fix a bug (Did not work with Palm OS 3.3)

0.9.8epsilon 7/07/99
Fix a bug (Japanese Kanji support in the city name list)

0.9.8delta 6/10/99
Modify the format of the city names list.
Change the Memopad category to seach the city names list.

0.9.8b 5/23/99
Add the popup menu replacement feature.

0.9.7b 2/19/99
Fix a bug (Sometimes, HotSync! button does not work.)

0.9.6b 2/09/99
Change [+][-] button to [Fwd][Bck] button.

0.9.5b 1/27/99
Disable the doubly launching.
Fix some delay to update the current time.

0.9.4b 1/13/99
Increase Speed (especially, for the key response)
Decrease memory (about 10% down)
Increase the max "offset" to 23.
Add "+1300(Nuku'alofa)" (Tonga) to the time zone list.
Change the development tool from GCC to CodeWarrior R5.

0.9b 1/6/99
The first public version

Thank you.

Koichi TERADA
email: kterada@mcn.ne.jp
web: http://www04.u-page.so-net.ne.jp/zd5/ktera...ilot/pilot.html
Last updated: $Date: 2002/06/15 15:48:41 $ UTC

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