Adding or Deleting Places

The ACS Atlas comes with an extensive range of locations from around the world. However, from time to time you may like to add your own places to the atlas, thus allowing them to be looked up with the correct timezone changes automatically applied.

>> To add or delete a place to the ACS Atlas:

•Click on the Add/Del Places button.

This will display the Personal Atlas Locations Dialog.

This dialog lists any personal locations that you have already added previously, but will be blank the first time you use it.

>> To add a place to the ACS Atlas:

•Click on the Add New button.

This displays a dialog into which you can enter the required new place details.

The items you need to supply are:

•Place - Enter the name of the place you wish to add

•Country - Enter the Country or US State name in which this place is located. Normally this will be a country or US State name which already exists in the ACS Atlas, but it is possible to enter a new country name if you wish.

•Latitude - Enter the latitude of the place. See Entering Longitudes and Latitudes

•Longitude - Enter the latitude of the place.

•Zone - If the timezone option is set to "Fixed timezone", then you can enter a timezone yourself. See Entering a Time Zone

•Specified Place, Country - If the timezone option allows it, you can enter a location which exists as a valid location within the ACS Atlas. See Using the ACS Atlas

•Timezone & DST Changes - This has three possible settings, as follows...

•Same as nearest location in atlas - If you select this option then the timezone and DST changes for your newly added place will automatically be the same as that for the nearest place in the atlas. This is normally the best option, unless your new location is near a border, for example, in which case the nearest place may not be in the same timezone region, and you may then want to specify a place which you know is in the correct region, instead.

•Same as this specified place, country - Allows you to specify an existing place in the ACS Atlas from which the timezone settings will be copied.

•Fixed timezone - If you don't want your place to have automatic daylight savings adjustments applied, you can either enter a fixed timezone, or use the Zone button to select one from the list.

>> To delete a place from the ACS Atlas:

•Highlight the place you wish to delete, and then use the Delete button.

Note - you can only delete places that you have previously added as personal places yourself. It is not possible to delete any of the locations that form part of the ACS Atlas as supplied.