How to set up TZUtil

You need to create a directory that contains the Time Zone Adjust program, the help files and a small text file called PABX.INI. This directory should be on your file server in an area where the system administrator can update the files and the users have read only access. The directory where you keep your applications with a sub directory called "MONTEL" would be ideal. For example F:\APPS\MONTEL or SYS:\APPS\MONTEL.

Unzip the files in the zip archive "disk1.zip" into this directory, or use the DOS installation program "install.exe" which does the same thing. Note that the files will not be extracted if they already exist in the directory by the 'install.exe' program, so you will need to delete any files before re-installing.

The PABX.INI file is similar to windows configuration files. It is a file that is shared between a number of MonTel related programs, including this one, and "Show Extensions" also available as freeware.

Now use NOTEPAD to edit the file called PABX.INI. This file has been set up with sample time zone. The comment character is the semi colon (;). Add and remove the comment character to set up your time zone. This is needs to be done by the system administrator, or the person that looks after the computer network. The task is simple and requires no great computer knowledge.

The way windows displays the time zone name (from the clock on the system tray, will be a concatenation of "(GMT+x:xx) TimeZoneName CapitalCity", where xx is ZStandardGMTModifyMins/60. You can change these in the PABX.INI file, the

defaults being:

CapitalCity = ""

TimeZoneName = "MonTel Adjusted"

TZStandardGMTModifyMins = -480

The amount of messages or prompts ranges from 4 down to 0. Use 0 if you want no messages, in which case if the time zone if different it will be changed without any user interaction. A setting of 3 is the default (SetUserFeedbackLevel = 3).

Following is a sample for Sydney in the year 2000: (Note that the others are commented out, and that daylight savings starts includes Olympic time).

[TimeZone]

CapitalCity = "Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart"

TimeZoneName = "MonTel Adjusted"

SetUserFeedbackLevel = 3

TZStandardName = "(AUS) Eastern Standard Time"

TZDaylightName = "(AUS) Eastern Daylight Time"

TZStandardGMTModifyMins = -600

TZDaylightStartDateTime = "02:00:00 27/08/00"

TZDaylightEndDateTime = "02:00:00 26/03/00"

TZDaylightSTDModifyMins = -60

;CapitalCity = "Brisbane"

;TimeZoneName = "MonTel Adjusted"

;SetUserFeedbackLevel = 3

;TZStandardName = "(AUS) Eastern Standard Time"

;TZDaylightName = "(AUS) Eastern Daylight Time"

;TZStandardGMTModifyMins = -600

;TZDaylightStartDateTime = "02:00:00 27/08/00"

;TZDaylightEndDateTime = "02:00:00 26/03/00"

;TZDaylightSTDModifyMins = -60

;CapitalCity = "Adelaide"

;TimeZoneName = "MonTel Adjusted"

;SetUserFeedbackLevel = 3

;TZStandardName = "(AUS) Central Standard Time"

;TZDaylightName = "(AUS) Central Daylight Time"

;TZStandardGMTModifyMins = -530

;TZDaylightStartDateTime = "02:00:00 29/10/00"

;TZDaylightEndDateTime = "02:00:00 26/03/00"

;TZDaylightSTDModifyMins = -60

;CapitalCity = "Perth"

;TimeZoneName = "MonTel Adjusted"

;SetUserFeedbackLevel = 3

;TZStandardName = "(AUS) Western Standard Time"

;TZDaylightName = "(AUS) Western Daylight Time"

;TZStandardGMTModifyMins = -480

;TZDaylightStartDateTime = ""

;TZDaylightEndDateTime = ""

TZDaylightSTDModifyMins = 0