Problem with "convert it to seconds"

simplsol at aol.com simplsol at aol.com
Fri Apr 29 10:29:44 EDT 2005


JB,
It is kind of you to say so.  ;-)
I hope someone in Scotland is listening to us...
Paul Looney

-----Original Message-----
From: jbv <jbv.silences at Club-Internet.fr>
To: How to use Revolution <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 08:31:40 +0200
Subject: Re: Problem with "convert it to seconds"

   Paul,
My remark was a "kind of" understatement...
Of course I DO agree...
JB

> JB
> You "kind of agree" ?
> This is an undocumented, non-intuitive way of handling dates and times
> which will break seconds and dateItem scripts created by 
non-suspecting
> users twice a year.
> How can the Rev. team justify the difficulty of doing what should be a
> simple process of getting the date for then next day - as late as
> Version 2.5?
> Paul Looney
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jbv <jbv.silences at Club-Internet.fr>
> To: How to use Revolution <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
> Sent: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 22:54:18 +0200
> Subject: Re: Problem with "convert it to seconds"
>
>    Thanks for the help Sarah.
> Actually I went for a similar solution : as I'm running Rev cgi
> on a Linux box, I do most of the time computations through
> MySQL...
>
> > Sarah,
> >   You can not rant often enough about Rev.'s time "peculiarities"!
> This
> > is an undocumented time bomb waiting for evey new user. It should 
have
> > been fixed at least two years ago.
> >  PL
> >
>
> I kind of agree with that...
>
> JB
>
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