Subject: Netscape bug fix

From: Eric Deutsch

Submitted: Mon, 15 Apr 96 17:45:39 -0700

Message number: 59 (previous: 58, next: 60 up: Index)

There is a bug in Netscape 2.0 where "last loaded" dates are recorded
incorrectly since the switch to daylight savings time.  This means that
unless caching is set to none, Netscape's "conditional GET" will fail
to refresh anything that has changed within the last hour.  This is
obviously undesirable when watching the images from the all-sky camera
or the weather plots, as you will only be able to see a new image every
hour (and it may look like the scanner isn't running).  Doug Ingram
pointed out a detailed discussion at
http://www.InstantSports.com/DSTfix.html.

The quick fix (for those using unix) is to type:
  %  setenv TZ PDT07
or%  setenv TZ MDT06
or%  setenv TZ CDT05
or%  setenv TZ EDT04
depending on the time zone you're in, in your shell before starting up
Netscape.  Once you do this, Netscape will be able to reload
frequently-changing data properly.  See the above URL for details on
how make a fix on other operating systems.

As usual, the latest all-sky scanner images can be found at:
  http://www.astro.washington.edu/deutsch/apoinfo/cloudscan/latestimage.html
and the latest plots of APO weather data can be found at:
  http://www.astro.washington.edu/deutsch/apoinfo/cloudscan/weatherplot.html

Eric



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