"Daylight saving ends on Sunday 2 April 2006 at 3 a.m. when clocks are put back one hour. Parliament legislated to extend daylight saving in 2006 to coincide with the Commonwealth Games." Source www.nsw.gov.au
With the variation of daylight savings time in New South Wales for this week, I thought it timely to show you how to change the time in Windows.
On most Windows PC's the clock and calendar is visible on the tray at the bottom right hand corner of your screen.
Sometimes it gets a little bit wrong and sometime a lot wrong.
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2. Check the date and time easily
To check the time you can simply look at the time on the tray. Some customers do not have the AP / PM showing on theirs so they might have that wrong.
To check the date, rest the mouse over the time and after a few seconds the day and date will show up. If it needs changing, I'll show you how to change it below.
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3. Change the Date, Time or clock settings
To change the date, time, time zone, daylight saving is automatically updated, and automatic synchronization options do this. Double click on the time (on the bottom right of your screen. There are 3 tabs available "Date & Time", "Time Zone", and "Internet Time". Note on the first tab "Date & Time" the month, year and day of the month is correct. If it needs changing, you can do it here. Click the "Time Zone" tab. Check that you're in the right time zone. Ours will usually say "(GMT+10:00) Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney". If it needs changing, here's the place to do it. Also here you can tick to have the time automatically updated for Daylight Savings. (check and change if you choose to).
Then you can click on the "Internet Time" tab. Here there's an option to have your computer clock synchronized with an international time system so you can always be correct to the second with an international system. I usually leave this with no tick as it seems to get it wrong too often.
If you've made any changes click "Apply" then "Ok", if you were just looking click cancel so there's no error saved.
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4. Confused about Daylight savings time?
This week there's likely to be some confusion because of the daylight savings changes in Australia for the Commonwealth Games. Some computer systems have been automatically updated with the special changes, while others will be using the Australian Eastern Standard Time, while others will be using the one week special of Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time between Sunday 26th March and Sunday 2nd April 2006.
Only time will tell what this weeks appointments and your calendar are affected by the variation in Daylight Savings.
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5. find daylight savings changes for New South Wales
If you'd link to know the planned start and end dates for Daylight savings in New South Wales through to 2016 - 2017 visit
http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/Corporate/ll_agdinfo.nsf
/pages/community_relations_daylight_saving
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6. Hints and Tips (date and time)
- * Quickly see what day a particular date is.
- * Open time / date change from the time in the tray.
* Change the date to the correct month
* look at the day of the week
* Click CANCEL (so your change isn't saved).
* Using Notepad for a text file?
- * to Automatically add the date and time when the file is opened
* Put the text ".LOG" (dot log in capitals) on the top line of the file by itself.
* put the current date and time into the text file
- * Press the F5 (middle top of the keyboard) key.
* Using Excel to add the curent date or time
- * For the Date press Ctrl and ; (semi colon) at the same time.
* For the Time press Ctrl and Shift and ; Semi Colon all at the same time.
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Greg Martyn, partner in Pixel ITT, provides technical support services and internet security software sales to small business and home users in Sydney Australia.
http://www.pixelitt.com.au