SDS Time Conduit for Windows

SDS Time Conduit is a conduit for the Palm program SDS Time. The conduit creates text files on the desktop computer with time data from SDS Time.

Installing

Run the installation program sdstime66.exe to install the conduit on a Windows computer. For Macintosh have a look here.

Configuration

After the conduit has been installed you probably want to configurate the behavior of the conduit. Click the HotSync icon in the lower right corner of the screen to open the HotSync pop-up menu. Select Custom... in the pop-up menu and select SDS Time.

The SDS Time Conduit settings dialog should now be displayed. Make sure Handheld overwrites desktop is selected. Click Options to open the SDS Time Conduit options dialog.

The settings dialog

The options dialog

In the options dialog you select what files the conduit shall generate and the file contents.

Single file creates one single file with all time data. Month files creates a separate file for each month and Week files creates a separate file for each week.

Select the field separator Comma or Semicolon to create files for import to Excel. Select Spaces or Tab for plain text files.

The options dialog

The time files

The created files are created in the folder SDS Time in your Palm user folder in the Palm directory. For example: my Palm HotSync ID is "Ulf" and the my Palm folder (the folder there the HotSync application is located) is "Sony Handheld". The files are located in the folder: C:\Program Files\Sony Handheld\Ulf\SDS Time

If you selected the field separator comma or semicolon the files are CSV files with the file extension csv. Otherwise the files have the extension txt.

File browser

Import in Excel

The CSV files are easy to import into an Excel sheet. Simply double click the CSV file.

Excel sheet