On Mon 2012-10-22 13:59, mark lewis (1:3634/12) wrote to andrew clarke:   
      
    ac>> Curious that MakeNL generates the datetime field for *.MSG files in   
    ac>> SEAdog format:   
      
    ac>> Mon 22 Oct 12 23:10   
      
    ac>> instead of the usual FTS-1 format, which allows seconds:   
      
    ac>> 22 Oct 12  23:10:45   
      
    ml> either is fine AFAICT... the seconds might be nice to help avoid   
    ml> duplicate collisions but that's not a real bother in netmail...    
      
    ac>> Perhaps Ben Baker's original MakeNL did this but I can't think of a   
    ac>> good justification for it.   
      
    ml> i'd have to look at a generated netmail from makenl since i still   
    ml> run the original... i do know that frontdoor doesn't seem to have a   
    ml> problem with it... evidently it can detect and use either... my   
    ml> makenl posts outbound netmail directly to my FD netmail area...   
      
   Of course, since FTS-1 allows either format.   
      
    ac>> Obviously the weekday can always be calculated from an FTS-1 date.   
    ac>> Storing it is completely redundant.   
      
    ml> WAG: seadog might have done it that way to save on calculation   
    ml> time... since it was already done by the originator, all they had   
    ml> to do was to display it...   
      
   Plausible but unconvincing.   
      
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