At 7:31 AM +0000 3/8/09, w7lrd@comcast.net wrote:

I know, I have been here before. I need to change the IT config file for daylight time. It says uncomment something. I don't know what uncomment means (forgot). This was six months ago and I forgot(senior moment). I will write it down so I won't bug you again in six months.

In the config file IT.INI, any line that starts with a # is a comment. That is, such a line is ignored by the computer. So to "uncomment" a line is to remove the # from the beginning of that line so that the computer will no longer ignore it.

Often you will also need to add a # to a conflicting line in the file. So, if there is a

timezone =

line in the file that doesn't start with a #, you may want to add a # at the beginning of that line at the same time as you remove the # from another such line.

Sorry if this is confusing. Commenting and uncommenting is so common for programmers that we didn't really think about how confusing it could be for non-programmers.

73 -Paul kb5mu@amsat.org