TimeAnnounce "Cheating"

If your radio station goes to a network newscast at the exact top of the hour, and you want to announce the time as the top of the hour, just before going to the news, you have a problem. If it isn't the top of the hour yet, so if you play a TimeAnnounce, it's going to declare the time to be "6:59" or whatever hour you're in.

The solution is simple. We'll use the 6:59 vs 7:00 example in our instructions below:

  Go into your TimeAnnounce folder (found in /boot/apps/TuneTracker System) and rename the 0659 file so it cannot be found. To do so, just put an underscore at the end of the filename, like this: 0659_. Renaming the files rather than deleting them is preferred, because that way you can revert back to them safely if you decide to do so.

Make a copy of your 0700 file (right-click on it and choose "Duplicate"), and then rename it to 0659.

Obviously, the same technique can be used at any time in any hour where you need to do a slightly advanced time announcement.

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