Subj : we are here and they are there ... so there To : Nancy Backus From : Maurice Kinal Date : Wed Jan 03 2018 02:06:20 Hey Nancy! I am taking the liberty of replying to this msg with all the others combined. This way we can filter out the bottles of beer ... until September 24th and later of course. Then again maybe we need a new countdown for 2019-01-01? NB> Seems to have worked fine Yes. Prior to the fix it claimed "2018-01-01 is 1 days from now and falls on a Monday." Dropping the 's' from '1 days' looks and sounds better methinks. NB> I can't tell any difference The difference was local. On the first one the fix was applied after I saved the msg whereas on the followup it was applied at creation so I saw '1 day' instead of '1 days' even though both ended up saying '1 day' which is why you couldn't tell the difference. This Dec. 31, 2018 it should say '1 day' on both the local and distributed msg. Something good came out of my boredom. NB> I see you kept the clock set for GMT Yes except let us call it Zulu Time instead. My localtime claims UTC which according to https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/z, "Zulu Time Zone (Z) has no offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)", so there is verification to support the claim that my system clock is indeed deploying Zulu Time. NB> But the countdown worked nicely And continues to as shown in the tagline below and is down 1 day from your msg that I am currently replying to. Also it automagically adjusted itself from 2017 to 2018 and changed from 'falls on a Monday' to 'falls on a Tuesday' which is accurate for both msg's when they were created. NB> it came in my 31Dec packet Which was correct since it still was December 31st in Rochester which is behind 5 hours of Zulu Time. NB> And I note that this message is also dated in GMT You of course meant to say Zulu Time. ;-) It will always be Zulu Time in the headers. I did use Rochester time in the body of the cybertoast msg. MK>> -={ Mon Jan 1 21:00:00 EST 2018 }=- As advertised! Right down to the second too, including the Zulu Time in the header which would have said, "Tue Jan 1 02:00:00 UTC 2019" if it used the same format. However Fidonet continues to use the obsolete datetime stamp despite the obvious shortcomings which were well known long before it officially became obsoleted. That was almost two decades ago. :::sigh::: NB> It's pretty chilly here It is major news on this side of the fence. Ye olde Polar Vortex strikes again! I hear it will be hanging around for at least one more week according to the weather people. We're on the cold side here but nowhere near what youse out east are getting. They did get an ice storm in the Fraser Valley and some have been without power for four days now. That one fell as straight rain and some snow so we got lucky and dodged that particular bullet. :::knock on wood::: Life is good, Maurice .... Future cybertoasts of note: 2019-01-01 is 363 days from now and falls on a Tuesday. 2024-11-05 is 2498 days from now and falls on a Tuesday. --- GNU bash, version 4.4.12(1)-release (x86_64-silvermont-linux-gnu) * Origin: Little Mikey's Brain - Ladysmith BC, Canada (1:153/7001) .