Help wait agrees with your observation. It reports
>> help wait
ARGUMENTS:
value -- (Type: number time port block)
No mention of date.
At 10:46 AM 5/9/00 -0800, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>The following is taken from the Rebol Dictionary, describing WAIT.
>
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>If the value is a TIME, delay for that period.
>If the value is a DATE/TIME, wait until that DATE/TIME.
>If the value is an INTEGER or DECIMAL, wait that number of seconds.
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>Testing with TIME and INTEGER works fine.
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>
>>> forever [print now/time wait 60 print now/time break ]
>10:18:33
>10:19:33
>>> forever [print now/time wait 00:01:30 print now/time break ]
>10:20:12
>10:21:43
>
>However when i try to specify a DATE/TIME, i get the following
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>>> forever [print now/time wait 9-May-2000/10:30:00 print now/time break ]
>10:24:08
>** Script Error: wait expected value argument of type: number time port
>block.
>
>The error seems to suggest that WAIT only expects a TIME and not a DATE?
>Am i missing something?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Mike.
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;- Elan >> [: - )]
