Subj : Re: How to increase size limit
To   : Oli
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Fri Jul 03 2020 11:37:29

Hi Oli,

On 2020-07-03 11:22:23, you wrote to me:

 Ol>>> Squish can store dates up to 2107-12-31 (dos time).

 WvV>> And because of that it has a 2 second resolution. (It drops the least
 WvV>> significant bit of the seconds, when it stores a message) Which has
 WvV>> been causing problems in the net, in the past...

 Ol> The original time string is preserved and stored in the Squish message base
 Ol> and should be used on rescan. If it's not then it is a problem/bug of the
 Ol> tosser, not really a problem of the Squish format. E.g. Squish (the tosser)
 Ol> does preserve the original date for rescanned/exported messages just fine.

 Ol> hpt does write the __ftsc_date field, but does not use it us it for
 Ol> exported messages that are rescanned (as in areafix RESCAN command). Maybe
 Ol> the problems were caused by hpt. Maybe there are other programs that don't
 Ol> stick to the specification. Maybe problems were created by copying /
 Ol> converting messages from JAM to Squish or from Squish to JAM.

I don't remember the details, just the problems... ;)

Bye, Wilfred.

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