
International Clock			Copyright (C) Moose O'Malley, 
-------------------			September 1996.


International Clock for Windows 3.1, 3.11, 95, NT.

Developed using 16-bit Delphi.

International Clock enables you to see :
- The current date / time for the location you are in now.
- The current date / time for up to 5 other locations 
  (anywhere in the world) you specify, according to the 
  time differences you specify.
- A time comparison table with each hour in the day in one location
  with the time in any of the other 5 locations.
  No longer will you need to say : "Oh, it's 4:30 PM here and they are
  8.5 hours behind, Um..., Erm..., what the hell is the time there ??"
  As International Clock will work it all out for you !

I wrote this utility to enable me to keep track of time in Australia
and in the UK, because I was speaking a lot on the phone
to someone in the UK, and I wanted to make sure that the time I
called them was convenient, and not anti-social.

In the age of global communications and the Internet, many people 
might find International Clock an invaluable program.  I hope
so anyway !


The Future :
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- the ability for the user to choose back / foreground font colours.
- ability to change the fonts in labels / time display.
- the ability for the user to dynamically change the space between 
  the label and time columns.
- possibly implement short and long descriptions / names for each 
  location to enable real window size shrinkage.
- 12 / 24 hour clocks.
- ability to turn off seconds.
- ability to put the clock onto the system tray (this will require 
  a 32 bit version).
- ability to shrink down the date display - put a (-1) for 
  1 day behind or (+1) for 1 day ahead - this way you can see 
  the time at each location and know what the date is as well 
  without having to see "Tuesday July 8" spelt out on each line.

Anything else ?  Email me and let me know !!


Sharware Information :
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This is NOT free software.

This product is shareware.  

This means that you can try out the software for evaluation 
purposes without charge for a period of 21 days to enable you
to decide whether to purchase / register it.

If you use this software after the 21 day evaluation period
a registration fee is required.  See the Registration Form
in the file register.txt.

Unregistered use of this software after the 21-day evaluation 
period is in violation of U.S. and international copyright laws.

If you do not purchase / register the software after the 21 day
trial period, then you must delete it from your system.

In order to encourage me to develop this software and keep 
developing other software, I encourage you to do the right 
thing and register the software.

I could have easily have made the programs nag you to Register, 
or expire after 21 days of use, but I do not like this approach.

From April 97 on, however, some of the new functionality being 
added to my programs will be available for Registered users only.
I tried to avoid doing this, but now I have been forced to do 
this to try and encourage some Registrations.

I live in the hope that if people use the programs, then they 
will register them.

Registered users will receive FREE upgrades of the program for
the life of the program.  i.e. as long as I keep improving the
program, registered users will get this new / additional 
functionality for FREE.

To Register, please complete the Registration Form in
the file register.txt.


Ammendment History :
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Vers    Date        Description
1.1     26-Sep-96   First Public Release.
1.2     02-Oct-96   Fix problem with Menu wrapping on some video cards,
                    which truncated the bottom line of the main window.
1.3     01-Nov-96   Convert time to 12 hour clock format with AM / PM label.
1.4     13-Jan-97   Enable half-hour increments in time difference to
                    reflect and cater for all real life time differences.
1.5     27-Jan-97   Add in Registration functionality.
2.0     27-May-97   Massive changes for this release !!
                    Save settings automatically on Windows 95 shutdown 
                    (Registered Users only).
                    Start Minimised if set in Shortcut / settings
                    (Registered Users only).  
                    Improve application startup - size and position 
                    Main Window before user sees it.
                    Added support for up to 5 locations / time 
                    zones (Registered Users only).
                    Enable Main Window to be re-sized automatically as 
                    locations are added / removed. (Registered Users only).
                    Added full Popup Menus which is available
                    when you right-mouse click on the main window
                    (Registered Users only).
                    Added ability to make the Menus line dissapear
                    via an option on the popup menu that appears 
                    when you right-mouse click on the main window
                    (Registered Users only).
                    Change Clock displays to be black backgraound 
                    with red letters - to simulate an LED clock.
                    Display all times in 24 hour clock format.
                    Add the ability to display dates for each location 
                    as well as the time.  (Registered Users only).
                    Improve the Settings Screens - with nice Tabbed
                    Dialogs and other nice features.
2.1     03-Jun-97   Add in Menu items for viewing my Shareware Catalog, 
                    the Readme file, and the Registration Form.
2.2     09-Jun-97   Add functionality to generate a time comparison 
                    table with each hour in the day in one location
                    with the time in any of the other 5 locations.
2.3     30-Jun-97   Add in menu options to Hide the Title Bar and 
                    Menu Bar.  (Registered Users only).
                    Add Right Click (Mouse) menu to reshow Title Bar 
                    and Menu Bar, generate Time Comparison Table,
                    and Settings Menu, Help, etc.
                    Add in ability to hide the current time zone 
                    time / description from the main window.
                    (Registered Users only).
                    Add in a button to copy the time comparison 
                    table data to the Clipboard, with row values 
                    seperated by a TAB character.
                    (Registered Users only).
                    Enable Main Window to be horizontally sized 
                    automatically.  (Registered Users only).
2.4     01-July-97  Add in support for 10 other locations / time 
                    zones.  Format the Time Comparison Table times
                    so that times less than 10:00 are padded with a
                    space to make them line up better when copy & 
                    pasted to Notepad or other product.
                    (3,602 lines of code / comments)
2.5     11-Jan-98   Fix a long standing but very elusive problem
                    to do with "DateEncode" errors which occured
                    on some machines under some conditions.
                    Once I could replicate the error, it was
                    reasonably straight forward to get a workaround
                    for what was another bug in Delphi.
                    (3,772 lines of code.)


If this program was not downloaded from my Home Page, then
it is most likely an old version.  The latest version of this 
program is available from my Home page and its mirrors.

Moose
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