Getting your time settings

I still get a couple of emails from users regarding time issues when we transition our clocks for daylight savings. Users continue to run into problems with the changes to the starting and stopping dates for daylight savings time. The following VB script has been very helpful in resolving issues. I found this script on the Internet.

On Error Resume Next
strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _ &
"{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")

Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_TimeZone")
For Each objItem in colItems
Wscript.Echo "Bias: " & objItem.Bias
Wscript.Echo "Caption: " & objItem.Caption
Wscript.Echo "Daylight Bias: " &
objItem.DaylightBias
Wscript.Echo "Daylight Day: " &
objItem.DaylightDay
Wscript.Echo "Daylight Day of Week: " &
objItem.DaylightDayOfWeek
Wscript.Echo "Daylight Hour: " &
objItem.DaylightHour
Wscript.Echo "Daylight Millisecond: " &
objItem.DaylightMillisecond
Wscript.Echo "Daylight Minute: " &
objItem.DaylightMinute
Wscript.Echo "Daylight Month: " &
objItem.DaylightMonth
Wscript.Echo "Daylight Name: " &
objItem.DaylightName
Wscript.Echo "Daylight Second:
" & objItem.DaylightSecond
Wscript.Echo "Daylight Year: " &
objItem.DaylightYear
Wscript.Echo "Description: " &
objItem.Description
Wscript.Echo "Setting ID: " &
objItem.SettingID
Wscript.Echo "Standard Bias: " &
objItem.StandardBias
Wscript.Echo "Standard Day: " &
objItem.StandardDay
Wscript.Echo "Standard Day of Week: " &
objItem.StandardDayOfWeek
Wscript.Echo "Standard Hour: " &
objItem.StandardHour
Wscript.Echo "Standard Millisecond: " &
objItem.StandardMillisecond
Wscript.Echo "Standard Minute: " &
objItem.StandardMinute
Wscript.Echo "Standard Month: " &
objItem.StandardMonth
Wscript.Echo "Standard Name: " &
objItem.StandardName
Wscript.Echo "Standard Second: " &
objItem.StandardSecond
Wscript.Echo "Standard Year: " &
objItem.StandardYear
Wscript.EchoNext

You can save this to time.vbs and run it on your computer with the command "cscript time.vbs"

Queuing Sounds

A user recently asked about sounds interrupting the currently playing sound. That does occur in the Message and Map clients. If the play once option is selected, the program may start a second sound before the first one has completed. This is due to the fact that the program does not know when the first sound completes.

I will look into adding an option to queue the sounds in the order that they are generated.

Weather Message 3.3 Refreshed

I have refreshed the Weather Message 3.3 public release with a revised WxMap. A user identified a problem in WxMap that caused it to crash. WxMap would report an object not set error if the Refresh Map option was clicked when the zone map had not been loaded/installed.

By default, the zone map is not installed. Because of this, it was necessary to correct the public 3.3 release.

Weather Message 3.3 Released

I have spent most of the afternoon getting 3.3 ready and posted on the website. I will start looking at changes for version 3.4 later in the week.

HTC 6800 Smart Phone

The company that I work for during the day has provided me with a HTC 6800 Smart Phone. This PDA / Phone has windows mobile 6 installed. I have been using the WxPda application to monitor the weather.

My plan has unlimited internet access so this will allow me to experiment with additional weather related applications. (I sure would like a program to download radar to the pda)

Version 3.3 Status

I think I am about ready to release version 3.3. I will try to post the last beta this week. I have been fixing some issues in the retransmission software and that has held up this beta.