Subj : Remote - Local Time synchro
To   : Jasen Betts
From : Gerald Miller
Date : Sun Aug 11 2002 09:32 am

Hello Jasen,

    On Wednesday July 31 2002 at 18:27,
    Jasen Betts [3:640/531.42] wrote to Gerald Miller,
    about:  Remote - Local Time synchro

It took a considerable amount of time for your reply to get to me....

[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]

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

Silly me.  I had presumed that you did test it. <grin>

 JB> [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....

 JB> oops, it's missing a "then"

 JB>   iff %correction lt -1 then
 JB>                        ~~~~~~

 JB>>>   elseiff %correction gt i

 GM>> Is the above line a "typo"?

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

The missing "then" aside, I was meaning that the (letter) "i" should possibly 
be a (digit) "1"????

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

 JB> try those edits, they seem to work here.

By the time you receive this message, you will probably have seen _my_ version 
of the complete TESTIME.BTM....  I _had_ to use some of your knowledge to get 
it to work and I do wish to express my appreciation for your insight.

           Thanks ... Gerald

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