Subj : Remote - Local Time synchro
To   : Gerald Miller
From : Jasen Betts
Date : Tue Aug 13 2002 06:28 pm

Hi Gerald.

11-Aug-02 08:32:13, Gerald Miller wrote to Jasen Betts


 GM> Hello Jasen,

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

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

 GM> [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)

 GM> 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>>>> elseiff %correction gt i

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

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

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

yeah, I missed that both times, I think I should cahnge my font so they
don't look so similar.

 -=> Bye <=-

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