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    From Va7aqd@VERT/VA7AQDS to All on Wed May 29 09:19:41 2019
    Howdy,

    I found an interesting time bug in syncterm, which I suspect is pretty benign, but I figured I should report it anyway.

    Syncterm doesn't know what time it is at 12PM, it seems to think it's still AM. I took a screen shot: https://photos.app.goo.gl/vkDcdyWyFbbQuJ679

    I have no idea what it does at midnight, as I'm too old to know what midnight looks like any more (and too lazy to move my system clock, I guess). ;-)

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Va7aqd on Wed May 29 13:23:07 2019
    Re: Syncterm noon hour
    By: Va7aqd to All on Wed May 29 2019 09:19 am

    Howdy,

    I found an interesting time bug in syncterm, which I suspect is pretty benign, but I figured I should report it anyway.

    Syncterm doesn't know what time it is at 12PM, it seems to think it's still AM. I took a screen shot: https://photos.app.goo.gl/vkDcdyWyFbbQuJ679

    I have no idea what it does at midnight, as I'm too old to know what midnight looks like any more (and too lazy to move my system clock, I guess). ;-)

    Wow, that bug is only about 30 years old! Now fixed. :-)

    digital man

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  • From Va7aqd@VERT/VA7AQDS to Digital Man on Wed May 29 20:21:32 2019
    Re: Syncterm noon hour
    By: Digital Man to Va7aqd on Wed May 29 2019 01:23 pm

    Syncterm doesn't know what time it is at 12PM, it seems to think it's still AM. I took a screen shot:
    Wow, that bug is only about 30 years old! Now fixed. :-)

    Wow, right on! Is there a prize for finding bugs that are that old? ;-) (probably an insult hurled for finding something so silly, but, I digress...)

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Va7aqd on Wed May 29 22:06:18 2019
    Re: Syncterm noon hour
    By: Va7aqd to Digital Man on Wed May 29 2019 08:21 pm

    Re: Syncterm noon hour
    By: Digital Man to Va7aqd on Wed May 29 2019 01:23 pm

    Syncterm doesn't know what time it is at 12PM, it seems to think it's still AM. I took a screen shot:
    Wow, that bug is only about 30 years old! Now fixed. :-)

    Wow, right on! Is there a prize for finding bugs that are that old? ;-) (probably an insult hurled for finding something so silly, but, I digress...)

    Here's an atta-boy: "atta-boy!" :-)

    Coincidentally, I was just looking at that "feature" of UIFC (the library I wrote/we use for those TUI apps) the other day and was thinking the clock was a dumb feature that should be replaced with something useful. :-|

    digital man

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  • From Netsurge@VERT to Va7aqd on Thu May 30 01:14:54 2019
    Wow, right on! Is there a prize for finding bugs that are that old? ;-) (probably an insult hurled for finding something so silly, but, I digress...)

    A bug is a bug is a bug. Impressive that no one in 30 years stumbled across
    it. I guess you are the lucky one.

    You should add the fact that you did to your signature. Something like
    "Current holder of oldest bug report: 30 years" lol.

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Digital Man on Thu May 30 09:59:59 2019
    Re: Syncterm noon hour
    By: Digital Man to Va7aqd on Wed May 29 2019 10:06 pm

    Coincidentally, I was just looking at that "feature" of UIFC (the library I wrote/we use for those TUI apps) the other day and was thinking the clock was a dumb feature that should be replaced with something useful. :-|

    In the 90s, I ended up using Telemate a lot for dialing into BBSes. One of the unique features it had was that it was able to control the CD-ROM drive to play audio CDs, so you could listen to music CDs in your PC while you were BBSing. It seemed cool that it could do that, but perhaps not the most useful feature. If I wanted to listen to a CD, I'd probably use my CD player, since it sounded better.

    Nightfox

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  • From Va7aqd@VERT/VA7AQDS to Netsurge on Thu May 30 12:23:36 2019
    Re: Re: Syncterm noon hour
    By: Netsurge to Va7aqd on Thu May 30 2019 01:14 am

    A bug is a bug is a bug. Impressive that no one in 30 years stumbled across it. I guess you are the lucky one.

    I am a little surprised, but hey, it's kind of amusing too.

    You should add the fact that you did to your signature. Something like "Current holder of oldest bug report: 30 years" lol.

    "Got any ancient bugs? We aim to find and let you exterminate!" ;-)

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