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   In part because PostScript has better font technology, charts
created using PostScript tend to have the best possible appearance.

14:  THE TIME DIALOG                        

   The "Time Dialog" in the Settings menu opens a dialog box  which
provides many ways to set the time.  Note that,  because resetting the
time in an astronomy program is so common a task,  Guide provides several
ways of doing it.  For some purposes,  you may prefer to use the "Enter
Time" option described on page 30.  Or you can make adjustments to
the current time by clicking on the time shown in the legend,  as
described on page 3.

  You can access the Time dialog through the menu item in the Settings
menu,  or by clicking on the time shown in the legend. When you open
this dialog, you will see something like the following.  (The exact
values depend on what your computer's built-in clock said when you
started Guide).

++  +  ++++ ++ ++ ++
 8 Aug 1985 12:03:31
--  -  ---- -- -- --
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
28 29 30 31  1  2  3
 4  5  6  7  8  9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30 31
 1  2  3  4  5  6  7
   Time Zone  UTC   
  JD 2446282.21078  
     Time Format    
    Current Time    
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr 
 May  Jun  Jul  Aug 
 Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec 
  OK        Cancel  

   Right at the top is Guide's idea of what the time is. By clicking
on a button above a figure,  you can increment it;  for example,
each time you click above the '9' in 1985, you will go forward by a
century.  By clicking on a button below a digit,  you can decrement
it. If you only want to change a few figures a small amount and don't
want to reach for the keyboard,  this can be very convenient.  (You
can also click on the digits in the date/time shown in the Legend,
without even needing to go to the Time dialog.  Guide's title bar
will change as the mouse goes over the digits,  telling you what
a mouse click on that digit will do.)

   If you click on the year,  hour,  minute and second fields on the
second line you can just enter those values from the keyboard.  This
would, for example, be the fastest way to go from 1985 to -333.

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