STANDARD.TEK

Information about changing the time back to standard:  Oct. 27, 1996

Note:

DO NOT USE ANY BRANCH EVENTS BETWEEN 1AM AND 2AM (INCLUSIVE) OR YOUR MACHINE
WILL GET STUCK IN A LOOP AND PLAY THAT SAME HOUR AGAIN AND AGAIN!!

To gracefully change your system time:

Go to the LIBRARY and ADD COMMAND CUT.
Enter an available cut number, give it the title FALL BACK or some other
clever title to let you know this is for setting the clock back to 1am
on the last Sunday in October.
Enter COMMANDS in the GROUP field.
Press ADD RECORD.
The Command Cut Editor should come up.  Enter these commands:

[line 1] SYNC 4000
[line 2] SYNC 2000
[line 3] SYNC 0000
[line 4] TIMESYNC SERVER    (network users only)

Press VERIFY SYNTAX to make sure you typed it in correctly.
Press ACCEPT.

This command will set the clock to 1:40, 1:20, then 1:00, within the course
of 0.5 seconds.  The reason for the 3-step process is to avoid using a SYSTEM
dcl to call the DOS function TIME 01:00:00.

Schedule this command cut in one playback machine at 2am.  The best way
to accomplish this is to load PBK4 or PBK3 or any generally unused playback
machine with a playlist that looks like this:

TIMED EVENT AT 02:00:00    A
99991 FALL BACK            N

For network users:

Create another command cut called SYNC TO SERVER and enter this command:
[line 1] TIMESYNC LOCAL

Create another playlist which will run in your remaining workstations:

TIMED EVENT AT 02:00:15    A
99992 SYNC TO SERVER       N

Load these playlists and push PLAY before leaving the station Saturday
night.  Notice that the machine will not loop because it is not a
branch event, and must be PLAYed in order to execute at 2am.  The Normal
transition on the command cut prevents it from executing again the next
time 2am rolls around.

You may resume branch events any time AFTER 2am.

*****NOTE******
For network users using TIMESYNC, make sure you execute the first command
listed above from the workstation that updates your server so that the server
time will also be corrected.  If you are not using TIMESYNC, make sure you
update your server time Saturday night or Sunday morning by executing the
following command at the server colon prompt:
set time hh:mm:ss[a/p]
examples:  set time 11:30:00p
           set time 1:00:00a