Subj : World nodelist
To   : Andrew Leary
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Sun Jun 19 2022 10:43:25

Hello Andrew,

On Sunday June 19 2022 01:15, you wrote to me:

 MV>> 5) If the ZCs would coordinate and synchronise their efforts
 MV>> there need not be delays. For examples ZCs couls agree to issue
 MV>> nodelists at 00:15 UTC. The ZCs could agree to exchangee zone
 MV>> segments with each other between 23:45 and 00:00 UTC. Segments
 MV>> submitted by RCs bedore 23:30 UTC would be guaranteed to make it into
 MV>> the next nodelist.
[..]

 AL> This is not a bad idea,

It was with in mind that five years ago I proposed the USEUTC command for Makel. I just reposted that proposal in de MAKENL_NG area.


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 From : Michiel van der Vlist               2:280/5555      Sun 19 Jun 2022
10:28
 To   : All
 Subj : Feature request
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In order to make it easier for nodelist clerks to synchronise their efforts
across time zones, I suggest the following;


UseUTC (0/1)    (default 0)


This instructs MakeNl to use UTC instead of local time to determine the day of
the week and other time related issues.

E.G. When it is Thursday 21:00 local time and it is Friday 01:00 UTC, Makenl
will act as if is is run on Friday and use the day number corresponding to
Friday.


In some cases, it may be necessary to override the OS's and/or compiler's time
functions. So I suggest the following option:


UseTZUTC (0/1)  (default 0)

Use the TZUTC environment variable to derive UTC from local time, instead of
using the value supplied by the OS and/or the compiler's library functions.

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Cheers, Michiel

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