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|    Richard Webb to Paul Quinn    |
|    another convoluted brainteaser for the g    |
|    10 Feb 12 13:45:04    |
      HI Paul,              On Fri 2012-Feb-10 14:58, Paul Quinn (3:640/384) wrote to Richard Webb:               RW> I've got a year to play with that one, but I think that'll        RW> do it!              PQ> I had in mind something simple, like...              PQ> -+- 8< ---       PQ> WHAT day       PQ> IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO NEWMONTH              PQ> :NEWMONTH       PQ> :: Do your processing for a following new month...       PQ> --- 8< ---              Take care of all that with a process that runs once a day,       does some specifics for what day of the week, gets the day       of the month, does some other things accordingly.              When we roll over to a new month on the first we capture how many days it has       for other reasons anyway, so that capture       is used in this little history thing that runs 0000 utc       Sunday morning.              I use days in the month, again at the end of the month to       average how many vessels logged per day, posts in a couple       of echoes/newsgroups, etc.              Were I building such a system from scratch though I'd       probably look at something such as you showed there.              PQ> That way it doesn't matter what month, or whether the year is a leap       PQ> year or not, it just does a new week's worth of post-able notes over       PQ> the rollover period.              Still would because of the way I end up doing things around       here.              Regards,        Richard       ---        * Origin: (1:116/901)    |
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