[ntp:questions] Software flaws in TIMEX Datalink (indirect ntp sync capable wristwatch)

Max Power mikehack at u.washington.edu
Sun Dec 4 01:44:50 UTC 2005


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Software flaws in TIMEX Datalink (ntp sync capable wristwatch)
-- The USB software does not support NTP sync capablities, a sore loss to 
users.
-- The USB software cannot be updated via the web except via bulky 
downloads, there is no simi-automatic update mechnism.
-- The USB software is not adiquately open sourced to help clean out the 
bugs -- and make it more MAC friendly.

URL:
http://www.timex.com/datalink/software/

FEATURED BUGs
-- "World Time" application
- Does not support all time zones.
- Newfoundland + St Pierre/Mequleon omitted.
- Other 15 and 45 minute time zones not supported'.
- No support for 4 letter time zones (AEST, ACST, AWST not supported).
- No program logic to indicate if a chosen location is in DST, so you can 
choose to set it to DST.
- Canada and the US now have very different DST rules as of 2007.
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--> setup info from 'worldtime.ini'

[WorldTime]
IncludeCountries=0

[-1100]
DefaultCity=1
SelectedCity=1
DST=0
C0=GMT -11:00
C1=Midway Is.

[-1000]
DefaultCity=1
SelectedCity=1
DST=0
C0=GMT -10:00
C1=Honolulu, United States

[-0900]
DefaultCity=1
SelectedCity=1
DST=0
C0=GMT -09:00
C1=Anchorage, United States

[-0800]
DefaultCity=2
SelectedCity=2
DST=0
C0=GMT -08:00
C1=Las Vegas, United States
C2=Los Angeles, United States
C3=Portland, United States
C4=Sacramento, United States
C5=San Diego, United States
C6=San Francisco, United States
C7=Seattle, United States
C9=U.S. Pacific
C8=Vancouver, Canada

[-0700]
DefaultCity=1
SelectedCity=1
DST=0
C0=GMT -07:00
C1=Denver, United States
C2=Phoenix, United States
C3=Salt Lake City, United States
C4=U.S. Mountain

[-0600]
DefaultCity=2
SelectedCity=2
DST=0
C0=GMT -06:00
C1=Birmingham, United States
C2=Chicago, United States
C3=Dallas, United States
C4=Fort Worth, United States
C5=Guadalajara, Mexico
C6=Houston, United States
C7=Indianapolis, United States
C8=Kansas City, United States
C9=Memphis, United States
C10=Mexico City, Mexico
C11=Milwaukee, United States
C12=Minneapolis, United States
C13=New Orleans, United States
C14=St. Louis, United States
C15=St. Paul, United States
C16=San Antonio, United States
C17=U.S. Central
C18=Winnipeg, Canada¬WIN

[-0500]
DefaultCity=18
SelectedCity=18
DST=0
C0=GMT -05:00
C1=Atlanta, United States
C2=Baltimore, United States
C3=Bogota, Colombia
C4=Boston, United States
C5=Buffalo, United States
C6=Cincinnati, United States
C7=Cleveland, United States
C8=Detroit, United States
C9=Falkland Islands, United Kingdom
C10=Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
C11=Havana, Cuba
C12=Kingston, Jamaica
C13=Lima, Peru
C14=Miami, United States
C15=Middlebury, United States
C16=Montreal, Canada
C17=Nassau, Bahamas
C18=New York, United States
C19=Niagara Falls, United States
C20=Ottawa, Canada
C21=Philadelphia, United States
C22=Pittsburgh, United States
C23=Quebec, Canada
C24=Toronto, Canada
C25=U.S. Eastern
C26=Washington, DC, United States

[-0400]
DefaultCity=2
SelectedCity=2
DST=0
C0=GMT -04:00
C1=Bermuda, United Kingdom
C2=Caracas, Venezuela
C3=Halifax, Canada
C4=Santiago, Chile

[-0300]
DefaultCity=2
SelectedCity=2
DST=0
C0=GMT -03:00
C1=Buenos Aires, Argentina
C2=Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
C3=Sao Paulo, Brazil

[-0200]
DefaultCity=2
SelectedCity=2
DST=0
C0=GMT -02:00
C1=Mid-Atlantic
C2=South Sandwich Is.

[-0100]
DefaultCity=1
SelectedCity=1
DST=0
C0=GMT -01:00
C1=Azores, Portugal
C2=Cape Verde Islands

[+0000]
DefaultCity=3
SelectedCity=3
DST=0
C0=GMT +00:00
C1=Casablanca, Morocco
C2=Dublin, Ireland
C3=London, United Kingdom
C4=Manchester, United Kingdom
C5=Reykjavik, Iceland

[+0100]
DefaultCity=26
SelectedCity=26
DST=0
C0=GMT +01:00
C1=Algiers, Algeria
C2=Amsterdam, Netherlands
C3=Barcelona, Spain
C4=Bergen, Norway
C5=Berlin, Germany
C6=Brussels, Belgium
C7=Budapest, Hungary
C8=Copenhagen, Denmark
C9=Dresden, Germany
C10=Frankfurt, Germany
C11=Goteborg, Sweden
C12=Hamburg, Germany
C13=Kinshasa, Zaire
C14=Krakow, Poland
C15=Lagos, Nigeria
C16=Leipzig, Germany
C17=Lyon, France
C18=Madrid, Spain
C19=Malmo, Sweden
C20=Marseilles, France
C21=Milan, Italy
C22=Munich, Germany
C23=Naples, Italy
C24=Nice, France
C25=Oslo, Norway
C26=Paris, France
C27=Rome, Italy
C28=Stockholm, Sweden
C29=Turin, Italy
C30=Vienna, Austria
C31=Warsaw, Poland
C32=Zurich, Switzerland

[+0200]
DefaultCity=2
SelectedCity=2
DST=0
C0=GMT +02:00
C1=Ankara, Turkey
C2=Athens, Greece
C3=Bucharest, Romania
C4=Cairo, Egypt
C5=Cape Town, South Africa
C6=Helsinki, Finland
C7=Istanbul, Turkey
C8=Jerusalem, Israel
C9=Johannesburg, South Africa
C10=Khartoum, Sudan
C11=Kiev, Ukraine
C12=Lvov, Ukraine
C13=Tel Aviv, Israel
C14=Tripoli, Libya

[+0300]
DefaultCity=2
SelectedCity=2
DST=0
C0=GMT +03:00
C1=Baghdad, Iraq
C2=Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
C2=Moscow, Russia
C3=St. Petersburg, Russia
C4=GMT +03:30*30
C5=Tehran, Iran*30

[+0400]
DefaultCity=1
SelectedCity=1
DST=0
C0=GMT +04:00
C1=Dubai, United Arab Emirates
C2=Muscat, Oman
C3=GMT +04:30*30
C4=Kabul, Afghanistan*30

[+0500]
DefaultCity=1
SelectedCity=1
DST=0
C0=GMT +05:00
C1=Karachi, Pakistan
C2=GMT +05:30*30
C3=Mumbai, India*30
C4=New Delhi, India*30
C5=GMT +05:45*45
C6=Kathmandu, Nepal*45

[+0600]
DefaultCity=1
SelectedCity=1
DST=0
C0=GMT+06:00
C1=Dhaka, Bangladesh
C2=GMT +06:30*30
C3=Rangoon, Myanmar*30

[+0700]
DefaultCity=1
SelectedCity=1
DST=0
C0=GMT +07:00
C1=Bangkok, Thailand
C2=Hanoi, Vietnam
C3=Jakarta, Indonesia

[+0800]
DefaultCity=3
SelectedCity=3
DST=0
C0=GMT +08:00
C1=Beijing, China
C2=Cebu, Philippines
C3=Hong Kong, China
C4=Manila, Philippines
C5=Perth, Australia
C6=Shanghai, China
C7=Singapore, Singapore
C8=Taipei, Taiwan

[+0900]
DefaultCity=7
SelectedCity=7
DST=0
C0=GMT +09:00
C1=Kyoto, Japan
C2=Nagoya, Japan
C3=Osaka, Japan
C4=Pusan, South Korea
C5=Sapporo, Japan
C6=Seoul, South Korea
C7=Tokyo, Japan
C8=Yokohama, Japan
C9=GMT +09:30*30
C10=Adelaide, Australia*30
C11=Darwin, AUstralia*30

[+1000]
DefaultCity=3
SelectedCity=3
DST=0
C0=GMT +10:00
C1=Canberra, Australia
C2=Melbourne, Australia
C3=Sydney, Australia

[+1100]
DefaultCity=1
SelectedCity=1
DST=0
C0=GMT +11:00
C1=Noumea, New Caledonia
[+1200]
DefaultCity=3
SelectedCity=3
DST=0
C0=GMT +12:00
C1=Auckland, New Zealand
C2=Marshall Islands
C3=Wellington, New Zealand





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