buckley@odin.m2c.org (Martin J. Buckley) (02/03/90)
Recently began investigating how best to implement a small call tracking
system and thought to use MH with tickets distributed via mail with
global folders as the archive. MH would seem to have a powerful enough
display mechanism for handling most reporting.
Creating tickets is easy, all that is needed is a component file with the
necessary fields.
Encountered a problem when trying to update an existing ticket(message).
Wanted to accomplish this with repl. Have created a replcomps that
matches my component file and sets up the body to contain:
Header
------
******** updated by: name at ##########
previous body.
The problem is in creating a readable form of the current data. From
what I read in mh-format, $(timenow) is the seconds since the unix
epoch. How do I get this to a human readable form? Have I missed some
other way of generating the date in a message?
Was hoping not to have to send the message through a dummy acount just
to obtain the actual date.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks
Martin Buckley
Martin Buckley
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