How to check the time and date on your computer - or -
changing the clock and calendar
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daylight savings time 2008 - NSW - new south wales - changes (with Microsoft Home User totorial)
(includes links to microsoft info and technet info for system admins)
Checking Clock and Calendar settings in Windows.
Daylight saving ends on Sunday 6th April 2008 at 3 a.m. when clocks are put back one hour. Parliament legislated to extend daylight saving from 2008 to harmonise changes to the daylight savings time with other South Eastern Australian states and the ACT.
Link to New South Wales Daylight Savings Calendar Daylight savings in New South Wales (NSW Govt info)
With the variation of daylight savings time in NSW, it's 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.
Check the date and time easily
To check the time you can simply look at the time on
the tray. Some clients 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.
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.
Confused about Daylight savings time?
Only time will tell what this weeks appointments and
your calendar are affected by the variation in Daylight Savings.
Where to find daylight savings change dates
for New South Wales and info about Australian Time Zones
and current Microsoft updates for timezone changes
If you’d link to know more about
the start and end dates for Daylight
savings in New South Wales
visit Attorney General's Department
The Australian Government time and
Australian time zones
Australian Government Time timezone info - Australia
Microsoft TechNet page on recent Time
zone changes
December 2007 cumulative time zone update
for
Microsoft Windows operating systems
Changes to daylight savings time in NSW
2008
daylight savings time 2008 - NSW - new south wales
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Hints and Tips (date and time)
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Quickly see what day a particular date is.
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Open time / date change from the time in the tray.
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Change the date to the correct month
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look at the day of the week
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Click CANCEL (so your change isn't saved).
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Using Notepad for a text file
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to Automatically add the date and time when the file is opened
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Put the text ".LOG" (dot log in capitals) on the top line of the file by itself.
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put the current date and time into the text file
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Press the F5 (middle top of the keyboard) key.
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Using Excel to add the current date or time
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For the Date press Ctrl and ; (semi colon) at the same time.
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For the Time press Ctrl and Shift and ; Semi Colon all at the same time.
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This information was originally published by Pixel ITT as our March 2006 email newsletter