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Skriven 2021-02-13 23:12:21 av Maurice Kinal (1:153/7001)
     Kommentar till en text av Rob Swindell
Ärende: "Packet Type 2 Compatible Formats" (Ex FSP-1040)
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Hey Rob!

 RS> It's not uncommon for January to represented as a 0.

You're making my point, as your example with JavaScript demonstrates.  It is
derived from c's time.h.

 RS> it uses localtime()

A time.h function along with gmtime() and strftime().  I'd be surprised if
those functions weren't included in JavaScript given localtime().

 RS> to convert the stored time_t to a struct tm and then I use sprintf
 RS> to format into the standard DateTime field syntax.

strftime() works just as well, even replicating two digit year formats such as
the packed message header's DateTime string.  As simple as using '%d %b %y  %T'
in the specifier field of the strftime() call, including using the c89
standards.  However I believe '%F %T %z' to be the superior output for a packed
meassage DateTime string.

 RS> You could sum up the vast majority of FidoNet in those two
 RS> words: "poorly designed".

Probably.  I believe having these types of conversations in public has the
potential towards solving that flaw.

 RS> I guess we shouldn't really have expected more from technology
 RS> developed by amateurs.

Speak for yourself.  I do expect more.  Both from them, whoever them are, as
well as myself.  That has always been my motivation for participating in this
fine and honourable echoarea.

Life is good,
Maurice

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    Those who are ready must go, the doomed die.
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