

ActiveEarth v1.1
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March 25, 1999

ActiveEarth is a world time clock and chronograph that 
beautifully displays the movement of day and night over 
The Living Earth satellite image. ActiveEarth features 
accurate time zone data for more than 500 cities and 
can synchronize your system with an atomic clock over 
the Internet.

The AE11.EXE file included in this ZIP file is a self-
running InstallShield setup. ActiveEarth includes a 
standard Windows uninstall.

ActiveEarth installs as a fully-functional 30-day trial
by default. ActiveEarth can be registered online for
$29.95 (US); registered users receive an unlocking code
by email.

More information on ActiveEarth is available at:

http://www.activeearth.com

Email: activeearth@logos.com


Copyright 1999 Logos Research Systems, Inc.
ActiveEarth is a trademark of Logos Research Systems, Inc.

Logos Research Systems, Inc.
715 SE Fidalgo Ave
Oak Harbor, WA  98277-4049
(360) 679-6575
Fax (360) 675-8169
http://www.logos.com


New Features in ActiveEarth v1.1
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1. Support for Swatch® Beat Time or Internet Time has 
been added. This time is displayed in the More 
Information panel and can also be displayed on the 
map as a Time Stamp.

2. "Time Stamps" may be displayed in each corner of 
the map allowing you to see a favorite time or 
countdown at a glance. A Time Stamp can show the 
Swatch® Beat Time (Internet Time), the local time, 
the time in one of your city clocks, UTC time, or a 
countdown to a specific date and time. Time stamps 
use a TrueType font and can be embossed into the 
map or displayed as a solid color with or without 
an outline.

3. The City Selection Dialog (accessible from either 
Change this Clock's City... or Add Another Clock...) 
will now display your custom cities as a group and 
allow you to remove custom cities.

4. The ActiveEarth default city and time zone databases 
have been extensively checked and corrected.

5. UTC has been added as a city with no daylight 
savings. This allows you to compare any city to UTC.
(UTC is the same as Greenwich Mean Time, the world-
wide reference point for time.)


Known Issues with ActiveEarth v1.1
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1. The "Set PC Clock to this Time Zone" feature is 
disabled on NT systems. To perform this operation 
on NT systems, open the time/date control panel applet 
and change the time zone.

2. The city and time zone databases have been updated. 
As a result a few of the cities are now in a different 
order. If, in your installation of ActiveEarth 1.0, 
you have a clock set to one of these changed cities, 
ActiveEarth 1.1 may display a different city than you 
expect. To fix this, simply change the clock to the 
desired city.


PRESS RELEASE
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

Media Contact: 
Dan Pritchett, Director of Marketing 
Logos Research Systems, Inc. 
(360) 679-6575 - dan@logos.com 

ActiveEarth Puts World Time on Satellite Photos of Earth 

OAK HARBOR, WA -- (February 22, 1999) Cloudless satellite 
photographs of the earth during day and night are the 
dramatic backdrop to ActiveEarth, a new atomic clock and 
world time program for Microsoft Windows. A fully-functional 
free trial version of ActiveEarth can be downloaded at 
http://www.activeearth.com. 

ActiveEarth shows the real-time movement of the sun across 
the face of the earth. Day is shown in bright, colorful 
detail while the portions of the earth in darkness are 
seen in the pale glow of the moon, with city lights shining 
out into space from major metropolitan centers. 

A row of clocks below the earth image shows the current time 
in cities around the world. Users can choose from more than 
500 cities and can add their own cities at any time. Cities 
are displayed with clocks in a user-chosen style and are 
labeled on the earth image. 

Synchronization with atomic clock servers via the Internet, 
graphical plotting of time differences between cities, and 
highly visual tools for understanding the movement of the 
sun and moon over individual cities are among the many 
other product features. 

According to Dan Pritchett, director of marketing at Logos 
Research Systems, "ActiveEarth is a great tool for anyone 
who has to deal with time zones. Frequent travelers and 
people with friends or business associates around the world 
will find it indispensable. The graphical alignment of two 
time zones is a quick way to see when you should make 
international phone calls. Teachers will find ActiveEarth 
a visually interesting way to help explain time zones and 
the changing length of the day through the seasons." 

Educators will appreciate the depth of data available for 
each city as well as the ability to set the earth image 
to a specific date and time, making ActiveEarth a powerful 
tool for understanding earth's relationship to the sun and 
moon. 

ActiveEarth runs on Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows NT. 
While ActiveEarth can be smoothly scaled to almost any size, 
and will work in 256-color mode, the underlying images are 
stored in super-high resolution True Color, allowing 
higher-end machines to take full advantage of the richness 
of the images. 

The time zone database used by ActiveEarth is extremely 
detailed with world-wide information on daylight savings 
time and even an understanding of complex time zone issues, 
such as small areas where zones differ by 15 minutes rather 
than an hour. 

ActiveEarth was developed by Logos Research Systems, Inc., 
a leading producer of electronic reference products and 
electronic publishing technologies located in Oak Harbor, 
Washington, near Seattle. More information on Logos 
Research Systems, Inc. is available at http://www.logos.com.

