Subj : Remote - Local Time synchro
To   : Gerald Miller
From : Jasen Betts
Date : Wed Jul 31 2002 07:27 pm

Hi Gerald.

28-Jul-02 08:12:28, Gerald Miller wrote to Jasen Betts


 GM> Hello Jasen,

 GM>     On Sunday July 21 2002 at 07:11,
 GM>     Jasen Betts [3:640/531.42] wrote to Gerald Miller,
 GM>     about:  Remote - Local Time synchro

 GM> Sorry for the delay
                          [snip]
 no problem.

 GM>>> This sounds appealing...  Would you provide an example?

  [snip]

 GM> The above line(s) gave me problems.....  I was able to get it to
 GM> work by changing it to:

 GM>   set correction=%@eval[(%remotetime - %localtime + 43200) %=
 GM>       %% 86400 - 43200]

yeah, that's what I meant. (A was assumingthe local and remote as HH:MM:SS
abd using the wrob gunction to convert... (I should have tested it)

[snip]
 JB>>  iff %correction lt -1

 GM> When the batch gets to the above line, there is an error because
 GM> the batch file gets loaded into my editor and is on the above
 GM> line....

oops, it's missing a "then"

  iff %correction lt -1 then
                       ~~~~~~
 JB>>   elseiff %correction gt i

 GM> Is the above line a "typo"?

no, a syntax error: it needs a "then" too... (ooops again)

 GM>>> This doesn't work, yet I can't see where my error is....

try those edits, they seem to work here.

 -=> Bye <=-

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