Nice, many thanks for sharing. Saves me printing out each week now and forgetting when something is approaching.
The Top panel where it has Today's Events seems to still work off the computer's clock so far as the time.
- So I trade from Sydney GMT+10 (+1 for Daylight Savings)
- But have the FXNewsAlert set to GMT+12
- In Sydney it is presently 23:00 (inc DST)
- Today's Events reads that EUR ECB President Draghi Speaks @ 23:30.
- Next Event count down says 30 minutes.
Today's Event of 23:30 is correct (not including DST) for President Draghi's actual time for the speech for a GMT+12 setting. That is it is the right information with the...
I've had another aussie mention TZ stuff - pesky antipodeans
If you're happy, i'm happy; thanks for the comment.
Edit: Also, make sure the alarm fires every few minutes (mine is set to 120secs). Go to Sound icon and change it in bottom blue box. If it's too large, then the app doesn't check events and your clock often enough, so it will still show events that will have come and gone.
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Really nice!
Thank you for your effords!
You should figure out a way to take some donations.
I didn't want to place ads, as i wanted a nice clean site but i just had to renew the hosting, so in the spirit of free software, a donate button makes sense.
I've added a donate button on the homepage.
Politics is the womb in which war develops.
This seems to be a Win7 issue; it happens when your display is not set to default.
h/t Shabs19:
"That is caused by the display setting of your computer. Go to control panel, then Display & change the resolution to default 100% that should resolve that. "
Alternatively, here's a video solution.
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Apologies if I misunderstood, but are you saying your TZ issue is now resolved?
I've had another aussie mention TZ stuff - pesky antipodeans
If you're happy, i'm happy; thanks for the comment.
Edit: Also, make sure the alarm fires every few minutes (mine is set to 120secs). Go to Sound icon and change it in bottom blue box. If it's too large, then the app doesn't check events and your clock often enough, so it will still show events that will have come and gone.
I am wanting the FXNewsAlert to run on a GMT+2 or GMT+3 setting like my broker's MT4 platform does.
However, when setting it to that TZ, although it STATES the time correctly for the TZ, it is consistently running one hour behind in the actual timing of the alerts. So you get alerts after the news has actually already gone by even though the time factor is being read correctly.
I think this is because it is somehow getting the clock of your computer mixed up OR DST mixed up (which Sydney and Melbourne in Australia are at the moment).
What I believe may solve this is keeping the TZ setting that is presently available and calling it TZ of your computers clock. Then creating a second TZ setting and calling it "Desired TZ Setting" or "Platform's TZ Setting".
Thanks again though for such a great tool.
