Subj : Remote - Local Time synchro
To   : Gerald Miller
From : Jasen Betts
Date : Tue Jul 16 2002 08:32 am

Hi Gerald.

14-Jul-02 15:57:13, Gerald Miller wrote to Jasen Betts


 GM> Hello Jasen,

 GM> I want (most times) to synchronize my system (Local) clock with
 GM> that of my mail uplink system (Remote) clock....
 GM> and now, the log file shows:

 GM> :  9:31:17  RTime: 14 Jul 02,  9:31:02 (-0600)
 GM> :  9:31:17  LTime: 14 Jul 02,  9:31:16 (-0600)

 GM> The (-0600) is a factor for my timezone being six hours behind
 GM> GMT.....

 GM> Before the timezone factor came into being, the following would
 GM> work:

 GM> Would you think that the use of

 GM> set ret=%@strip[(-0600)[%@time[%@word[-0,%@execstr[FFIND /k/m/r/%=
 GM> t"RTime" C:\Fd\FD.LOG]]]]] set
 GM> lot=%@strip[(-0600)[%@time[%@word[-0,%@execstr[FFIND /k/m/r/%=
 GM> t"LTime" C:\Fd\FD.LOG]]]]]

 GM> would make the BTM process the log file without the GMT factor?

no. strip works on indicidual characters not to whole substrings (words)

eg:  echo %#strip[dont,work]
     wrk

The fix is easy though, don't ue strip at all, jyst change the number -0 in
%@word[ to 5  which means  the sixth word on the line)

 -=> Bye <=-

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