Re: What date is it anyway?
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texte = Brian, your experiences seem to be consistent with what we are getting. For the record, we are running WebDNA 5.1e on Mac OS X.[Date] should be 100% reliable but it appears not to be.Phil>I've seen similar problems naming files using [date]. On rare occasions (like one in 100,000), always using the same code and never having a variable named "date", [writefile abc[date %Y%m%d]] will give me file names like:>>abc2004>abc200403>abcdate>abc>>This is using WebDNA 5.0.0g on OSX. I don't have a solution, and it hasn't hit a particularly critical area - mostly this hits on my common code for logging page hits, and missing a hit or two a day isn't a big deal. It is disturbing, however.>>- brian>>On Mar 24, 2004, at 5:00 AM, Phil Ronchetti wrote:>>>I'm not using the date function inside an orderfile. The code looks like this:>>>>[text]var_ymd=[date %y%m%d][/text]>>[AppendFile file=backups/orders[var_ymd].txt][/AppendFile]>>>>Phil>>>>>At 12:35 PM +0000 3/24/04, Phil Ronchetti wrote:>>>>Hi,>>>>>>>>I'm getting some really weird date function behaviour. I use the date function to generate a filename such as ordersYYMMDD.txt (e.g. orders040324.txt). This works fine almost all of the time but occasionally the filename that is generated is incorrect. It happened today, I was expecting orders040324.txt but got orders031010.txt. I checked the date on the server and it was set correctly.>>>>>>Are you creating this file within an [orderfile...] context? If so, then the date is the date of the order, not the system date. ~Joe>>>-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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Brian, your experiences seem to be consistent with what we are getting. For the record, we are running WebDNA 5.1e on Mac OS X.[date] should be 100% reliable but it appears not to be.Phil>I've seen similar problems naming files using [date]. On rare occasions (like one in 100,000), always using the same code and never having a variable named "date", [writefile abc[date %Y%m%d]] will give me file names like:>>abc2004>abc200403>abcdate>abc>>This is using WebDNA 5.0.0g on OSX. I don't have a solution, and it hasn't hit a particularly critical area - mostly this hits on my common code for logging page hits, and missing a hit or two a day isn't a big deal. It is disturbing, however.>>- brian>>On Mar 24, 2004, at 5:00 AM, Phil Ronchetti wrote:>>>I'm not using the date function inside an orderfile. The code looks like this:>>>>[text]var_ymd=[date %y%m%d][/text]>>[AppendFile file=backups/orders[var_ymd].txt][/AppendFile]>>>>Phil>>>>>At 12:35 PM +0000 3/24/04, Phil Ronchetti wrote:>>>>Hi,>>>>>>>>I'm getting some really weird date function behaviour. I use the date function to generate a filename such as ordersYYMMDD.txt (e.g. orders040324.txt). This works fine almost all of the time but occasionally the filename that is generated is incorrect. It happened today, I was expecting orders040324.txt but got orders031010.txt. I checked the date on the server and it was set correctly.>>>>>>Are you creating this file within an [orderfile...] context? If so, then the date is the date of the order, not the system date. ~Joe>>>-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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