Archive for October, 2005

Easter Eggs

picture of a faberge egg

All good software has to have some Easter Eggs in it. Well, we finally got around to putting some into servicesheet.com. Now, we didn’t spend months coding a hidden flight simulator into servicesheet.com, but we did hide a few little tidbits that you might run across. I can tell you that you have to be logged in to see them. They’re certainly not as hard to find as all the hidden messages in Duke Nukem 3D. Need a clue? Give us a call.


What Time is it?

Have you noticed the time and date printed on the top of the ServiceSheets you generate? It’s in the upper right hand corner above the VIN.

screenshot - time displayed on ServiceSheet PDF

Prior to today, we were using the time from our server, which happens to be at a datacenter in the Eastern time zone (GMT -0500). Effective today, you can set your offset from the Eastern time zone. If you’re in Chicago, you would enter -1 in the admin screen under “Time Offset”. See below:

screenshot - preference screen in the manager section

In most cases, we’ve already set this for you when setting up your account, but it’s possible it’s wrong. Maybe you’re in Hawaii, Arizona or a part of Indiana and the time is off by an hour due to daylight savings time. Of course other countries vary in their observance of daylight savings time too. In any case, if it’s wrong, it’s easy to adjust. You can do it with the manager password, or you can give us a call or send us an email, and we’ll correct it for you.

(edited 1/22/2006 to add screenshots)