Clock G2 Release Notes

New features in version 6.1:

• Support for up to 20 cities in world clock mode
• Improved accuracy of city database

Bugs Fixed in version 6.1:

• Fixed various time zones around the world
• Fixed problems with Vista User Account Control (UAC) which was keeping the time synchronization feature from functioning.
• Fixed problems with program menu and desktop shortcuts.  Previous versions would bring up the installer application for a few seconds on certain machines.

New features in version 6.0:

• Clock G2 is now free for all users

Bugs Fixed in version 6.0:

• Support for the Time Zone change in the United States

New features in version 5.2:

• Improved Time Synchronization
  • Implemented new SNTP protocol which improves the speed in which synchronization occurs.
  • Time is now accurate to the millisecond (1/1000th of a second).
• Countdown clock can now countdown to an arbitrary time (to the second).

Bugs Fixed in version 5.2:

• Time Synchronization - With the new protocol implemented, you will not longer receive the message "Synchronizing..." for long periods of time.

Bugs Fixed in version 5.1.2:

• Alarms - Re-occurring alarms now trigger at the appropriate times.

New features in version 5.1.1:

• Talking Clock
  • You can now speak the time on demand by selecting 'Speak Time' from the Clock menu
  • Clock G2 can optionally speak the current time at the top of the hour.  The time is spoken after any selected chimes complete playing
• The Clock G2 window will now snap to the edges of your screen for easy positioning the clock at the corners of your screen.  Transparent mode is unaffected by window snapping.

Bugs Fixed in version 5.1.1:

• Hourly, Quarter hour and Minute chimes using MIDI files were not working.  This has been fixed.

New features in version 5.1:

• Calendar
  • Take a look at the current month, and the next months calendar
  • Easily add an alarm by clicking on the day
  • View any month of any year
  • Displays your existing alarms
• Talking clock now works with the built in Text-To-Speech built into Windows XP.  Speech recognition was removed from the product.
• Re-organized menus for faster access from the application.

Bugs Fixed in version 5.1:

• Fixed Splash screen for unregistered users.

New features in version 5.0:

• City Search
  • Lookup over 4800 cities and regions
  • Get the Time zone information automatically
  • Find out what time it is in any city, and how many hours different from your local time
  • Easily find cities, and add them to your World Clock
• New Display Options – The Day of week can now be optionally displayed with the date.  Four date options exist:
  • Windows Short Date (Example:  4/15/2002)
  • Windows Long Date (Example:  Monday, April 15, 2002)
  • Day of Week /Month/Day “Short Version” (Example:  Mon, Apr 15)
  • Day of Week/Month/Day “Full Version” (Example:  Monday, April 15)
• New Analog Clock Options
  • Display Number on the Clock face
  • Display Roman Numerals (i.e. III, V, XI etc)
  • Turn the shadow effect on the clock hands on/off
• Skin Rotation – Rotate hourly between all of your skins.  Even works in Screen Saver mode.
• Support for Windows XP visual Themes
• Color for second hand can now be defined in the Skin Editor (2000 and XP only)

Bugs Fixed in version 5.0:

• Editing a skin would not update the clock, if you were using the same skin, until you restarted the application.
• Fixed slightly distorted icon in the Windows Tray
• Fixed a problem in 2000/XP where switching clock faces in transparent mode was causing the transparency to not update.
• Correctly launching the Internet Properties Control Panel (Connections tab) from the “Change…” button in Email Preferences.

New features in version 4.2:

• Duration of Alarms.  You can now specify a sound file to play a specified number of times, or a certain number of minutes/ seconds.
• Automatic closing of Alarm Window.  This feature can be enabled from the Alarm Edit dialog.
• New Option to Hide the task bar.  In previous versions, the task bar would only hide when in transparent mode.  Now the user has full control of the task bar that Clock G2 creates.
• Show/Hide Clock now saves between sessions.  Previous versions would not persist this selection, and the clock would always show the next time it ran.  This feature can be found on the Clock menu, Options menu, then toggle Show Clock.

Bugs Fixed in version 4.2:

• Alarms defined a "Once" would chime early (and often).  This has been corrected so that alarms no longer trigger early.
• Defining alarm trigger time is now sensitive to 12/24 hours clock settings.
• Fixed a font size bug in the Countdown clock
• Countdown clock now defaults to the next New Year, instead of the year 3000 New Year.
• Two setup dialogs could be opened in previous versions.  This has been fixed.
• Text in transparent mode was drawing with the user's settings for "Smooth edges of screen fonts".  This would cause a gray border around the fonts.  Clock G2 now draws fonts in Transparent mode to avoid this font edge problem (the program uses the user's preferences when not in transparent mode).

New features in version 4.1:

• Alarms - Create alarms that can:
  • Wake you in the morning.
  • Speak the time at the top of the hour
  • Remind yourself of important dates
  • Specify re-occurring events (daily, weekly, monthly etc).

• Alarms - Trigger different events:
  • Speak the alarm name or current time
  • Launch a specific program.
  • Popup a message window
  • Play a specific sound file
• Countdown clock - The millennium clock has now been expanded to countdown to any time you wish.
• Always on Bottom support - You can now specify Clock G2 to be a top most window, or bottom most.
• Internet Updates - Clock G2 now checks the Internet for new updates.
• New expanded Clock Face Setup - Now you can set up the details of the World or Countdown clock from a new dialog.  Just press the Features button in the Display setup tab to open it.

Bugs Fixed in version 4.1:

• Windows 2000 - Transparent mode sometimes displayed as a gray rectangle.  This problem has now been fixed.
• Fixed a crash if you move the mouse during the splash screen display on the screen saver.
• Modifications via the options menu now save correctly during a re-boot of Windows.
• Fixed a problem where sounds could play twice if screen saver and desktop clock are running at the same time.

New features in version 4.0:

• Support for Speech Recognition and Speech Synthesis. Have you ever wanted to be able to tell what time it is in London just by giving a voice command? Just say "What time is it on London?", and Clock G2 will tell you.  This feature requires Speech software already installed on your computer. (feature removed in future version)
• Under Windows 2000, you can now run transparent mode using seconds.  Clock G2 takes advantage of a new system feature to make transparent mode less of a system load. The seconds feature (in Transparent mode) is disabled for other versions of Windows.
• You can now have Clock G2 automatically connect to the Internet to check your e-mail for synchronize your clock. After perform these operations, Clock G2 will disconnect from your ISP.
• Clock sounds can now be modified from the Options tab in setup. Press the Setup button in the bottom right of the dialog to import any WAV or MIDI file you want. 4.0 also supports a chime file that will play the time at the top of the hour.
• A Skin editor has been integrated in the Clock G2 setup dialog. You can create your own skins or edit and remove skins from your skin list. You can also pack up one or more skins to send to a friend. If they have Clock G2, they can double click on the skin file and it automatically adds it to their skin list.

Bugs Fixed in version 4.0:

• Clock G2 can now be installed under the Guest account of NT or Windows 2000.
• Clock G2 can now run on a Windows 95 machine without Internet Explorer.  Previous versions of Clock G2 required IE 3.0 or higher installed.

New features in version 3.1:

• A time zone editor has been integrated into Clock G2. This is handy for modifying and adding to the built in time zones in Windows. These time zones are used by the World Clock to calculate the current time for each selected city.
• A check box was added to the time zone dialog so that a time zone could be selected for a city without adjusting for daylight savings time.

Bugs fixed in version 3.1:

• Memory management has improved when using a clock with skins. A large clock (full screen) with skins would cause Windows 95/98 systems to sometimes react strangely after the clock ran for several hours. This problem did not occur on Windows NT. This bug has been fixed.
• The routines to calculate the current local time for each city in the 
  world clock were not accurately calculating the cross-over date/time for daylight savings time. This problem occurred on selected cities that are in time zones where Daylight Savings Time is defined. The symptom was that certain cities would display a time that was wrong by one hour. The routines have been rewritten to be 100% accurate. This problem was only under Windows 95/98 and did not occur in Windows NT.

New features of version 3.0:

• Clock Skins
• Transparency Mode - The clock face seamlessly melds into your desktop
• Digital World Clock Face
• E-mail support - Check a POP3 mailbox and launch your e-mail program
• Proxy server support for time synchronization
• Option to sync time on program startup
• Run at Windows Startup
• Optional Tray Icon
• Always on Top Mode
• Send to Back Mode - Keep the clock out of your way.
• Options menu to quickly change certain display options without having to open the setup dialog
• Chimes on the hour, quarter hour or minute

New features in version 2.0.1:

• Screen Saver Mode
• Millennium Clock Face
• Local Time Zone Selection
• Configuration Wizard
• Setup Program
• Improved Time Zone Selecting (Change city name on time zone selection)
• Improved Animated Splash Screen
• Debug Log Window is now hidden (activate by holding Shift key down while opening menu).   The log helps our support group troubleshoot Internet problems that can occur during time synchronization.

Bugs fixed in version 2.0.1:

• Fix for IE 5.0.  When opening the setup dialog, Clock G2 would bring up an error dialog with the message: "Unknown".
• Fix for slow drawing on some machines (Analog Clock Face)
• A bug was fixed in time synchronization.  Clock G2 would not synchronize the time correctly in certain time zones.