(Sorry to drag up an old thread, but a funny thought struck...) I have just finished a free east (EDT, specifically) timer, which I hope will fulfill your needs. The program has the following features: - Contains several million timers - Protects each timer from external threat - Performs all calculations in Eastern Daylight Time (even during the night!) - Queries external sources for help when external threats are great - Does not accept external interrupts (presumably to protect it's own timers) - Sends spurious interrupts to other groups of uControllers, always assuming that they would love to deal with its problems I hope this is what you need! I do not know much about your problem, but I perhaps have a few insights below: >Bruno Carvalho wrote: Thanks for writing. > The US Gov are a group of cocksuckers, No, just certian interns... (sorry, I couldn't resist ;-) > they only like to be the WORLD > POLICE when they have some political or economical interests. And I only program uControllers when I have a personal or financial interest. Is that a problem? Am I a Bad Person(TM)? You only send messages to random groups when you have a personal or economic interest in the message. Why aren't you complaining about the albanians/serbians/south africa tribal wars/american gangs/people in poverty etc? > They > made the Gulf War I don't agree with that statement, but I accept that others views of the matter could be completely different. > (and many other wars, like Kosovo just because they > had some interests) only because of oil, Well, there certianly were other issues. But in reality, we could afford to lose the oil imported from Kosovo with few economic problems. It wasn't the only reason. > but now people are being > murdered in EAST TIMOR and they just talk, they like to kiss the > Indonesians hass. Wow, that's a logical argument. "I enjoy watching strangers be killed because I am brown-nosing with the killer." Like it or not, we are a (mainly) capitolist society. If money is not involved, we are not interested. There is a lot of money involved in the agreements we have with other countries. If someone started attacking, oh, say the UK, we would be involved very quickly, we have agrements with the UN that concern that very thing. What agreements do we have with East Timor? What agreements do we have with Indonesia? By entering this engagement, what agreements will we be affecting with other countries? Do you think that Indonesia would attack East Timor if East Timor had a 'big brother' agreement with the US? Is there a reason for the US to offer it's help? Just because it's a Good Thing (TM)? Great, you can probably get 60% of the US voting population to agree that we should be involved. But guess what? When the time comes around for you to get donations to pay for the effort, your support will disappear. I never even knew there was an "East Timor" until recently. The general population of the US don't have a personal tie there. Of course, other countries are pushing us to become involved. And some countries will use their trade agreements to push or pull us one way or another. A random post to a list will probably return some sentiment, but mostly humor. -Adam "I distinctly heard, 'To Blave', which, as we all know, means 'to bluff'. So you were probably playing cards, and he cheated, right?" -Miracle Max (Billy Crystal) in "The Princess Bride"