@database AmiInternetTime.guide
@author Yves Grabowsky
@copyright © by Yves Grabowsky
$VER: AmiInternetTime.guide 2.1 (24-12-1998) © Yves Grabowsky

@node MAIN "Welcome"


                             AmiInternetTime 1.0

                              by Yves Grabowsky


   Contents:

   @{"    Disclamer    " link dis} @{b}Very important, please read!@{ub}
   @{"  Introduction   " link intro} What is it?
   @{"  Requirements   " link req} What do you need?
   @{"  Installation   " link install}
   @{"  Configuration  " link config} How to set it up
   @{"     Usage       " link use} How to use

   @{"    History      " link hist} A look back
   @{"    Future       " link fut} A look forward
   @{"    Author       " link auth} How to contact me

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@node dis "Disclamer"

AmiInternetTime is FREEWARE! But it is still under my copyright!
AmiInternetTime is provided "AS-IS". This means, you can copy it and
spread it everywhere, but only if the archive, the guide,
and AmiInternetTime are unchanged!
AmiInternetTime must not be used for commercial purposes (selling,
copying on PD-Disks and selling them or copying on CD-ROMs
and selling them), without my permission. Posting on bulletin
board systems (BBS) is allowed, as long as the archive and its
contents are unchanged (see above).

@{b}DECODING AND/OR CRACKING IS STRICTLY PROHABITED!@{ub}

I'm not responsible for any damage that is caused by AmiInternetTime!
You use it at your own risk!

MUI is © by Stefan Stuntz.
Swatch is a registered trademark of the Swatch Corp.  

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@node intro "Introduction"

AmiInternetTime is an amiga clock that displays the Swatch internet time,
maybe you heard of this. The feature of this new time are that all timezones
no longer exists, all geographical borders are gone. Everywhere in the world,
the beats are in all countries the same.
Did you understand? An example, you live in Germany and want to chat with someone
in the USA, you have to meet at a certain time, let's say 12:00 p.m. German time.
Normally you would now have to calculate the time differenz between German time
and American time, but with the Swatch Internet time you could simply tell him
"we meet at 500 Beats," the good thing is that 500 Beats in the USA is exactly
the same time in Germany.

As already said above, this new time doesn't have hours or minutes, only Beats.
Calculation begins at 12:00 a.m. MEST (GMT+1) with 0 Beats. At 12:00 p.m. we
have exactly 500 Beats, and so on. The time is written in the format 
"@ xxx Beats" ("at xxx Beats").

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@node req "Requierements"

You need:
- MUI 3.0 or above

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@node install "Installation"

Simply drag it somewhere (preferably into WBStartup) and run it.

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@node config "Configuration"

You can configure it by setting these ToolTypes:

TIMEOFFSET: the hours you are away from MEST (GMT+1).
            @{b}IMPORTANT:@{ub} If your country has daylight saving time, you
                     must attend this! Ex: German users in summertime have 
                     to set an offset of -1.

POS_X     : left edge position of the window.
POS_Y     : top edge position of the window.

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@node use "Usage"

Menus:
   
   Project
      Activate alert :  toggle this to activate the alert function

      Alert at...    : a window will pop up, where you can adjust
                                 the alarm time.

      Quit           :  quit the program.

   Settings
      Settings       : opens the settings window, where you can adjust
                       your time offset from MEST.
                       Note: Because of a bug I had to disable saving
                             the value adjusted here, use instead the
                             tooltypes item "TIMEOFFSET".

      MUI Settings   : open MUI settings window.

      Snapshot window: don't use it, it doesn't work, use tooltypes 
                       instead.

Windows:

   Main window: here are the beats displayed.

   Alert win  : if you activated the alert this window will pop up and
                remind you. (alert comes in combination with three display beeps)

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@node hist "History"

V1.0 (08-05-99)
   - first release

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@node fut "Future"

- fixing the tooltypes save bug (settings window)
- fixing snaphot window bug
- fixing other not yet known bugs (mail me bugs if you find some)
- your ideas?

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@node auth "Author"

My snail mail address:

   Yves Grabowsky
   Keplerstr. 23
   08248 Klingenthal
   Germany

eMail: rexxmaster@gmx.net
Homepage: http://members.tripod.com/~rexxmaster/

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