World Clock bug

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Date: Fri, 28 Jan 94 16:20 PST
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From: brian@eit.COM (Brian Smithson)
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Subject: World Clock bug
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It's a little hard to fault the application for this, but I'll do it anyway.
Your system clock can get stuck in the wrong time zone under the following
circumstance:

(1) Set "destination" to a location in some other time zone than your "home".
(2) Set the system clock to "destination".
(3) Crash GEOS :-).

After reboot, the system clock will still be set to the current time for the
other time zone, but World Clock will be set to "home" again.  The workaround
is to use Preferences to set the system clock back to the current time in
your "home" time zone.

It would be nice if this was fixed in the next rev of Zoomer software.  I use
the World Clock rather extensively, because I schedule appointments in other
time zones and need the alarms to work when I get there.

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