Author: Amir Ban
Date: 18:12:21 10/14/97
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On October 14, 1997 at 18:44:17, Bruce Moreland wrote: >I don't want to bring my "setup" dialog up in order to change my clock. >It will probably work, but I don't want to risk a crash or making a typo >when I enter the time. > This seems to be the key point you are making: You cannot reliably change your clock. Later here you say that you don't even know what it is. I agree that this would make it hard for you to follow the suggestion, but I am curious: Do you then never adjust the time ? If due to circumstances your clock runs idle for more than 5 minutes an hour, would you lose on time ? And since you don't see the clock, you don't even know that this will happen ? If this is what you do, how would you feel about a modification that allows a program to not set the right clock on demand, provided they NEVER touch the clock ? I really don't intend to ram any suggestion into anyone's throat, and if you or others feel that it's discriminatory, I'll take it back. But how would you handle this: Some programs are not guaranteed to stay within time-limits even on their own internal clocks. I don't know this for sure, but still I would put money on it. Such programs really rely on judicious operator fudging to keep them from losing. To me this is intervention par excellence and should be as legal as "showing" the program how to win an endgame. Amir
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