Re: Macro for time zone?

2004-01-20 Thread Dan Grunberg 
Tue, 13 Jan 2004 06:01:55 +1100 (2:01 PM EST Mon here) S  J Love wrote:

 I was thinking it would be good to have an indication of time zone
 (TZ). eg where I am (New South Wales, Australia), the time zone
 (with daylight saving) is GMT + 1100. Of course message headers
 include indications of time zone...

I posted a template for my time zone at
http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/Library.html#activetimezone .

Terry L Fritts and Januk Aggarwal showed me the way in recent posts on
TBtech. They suggested downloading a plug-in from
http://en.barin.com.ua/soft/mymacros/ , unzipping the downloaded file,
and adding the mymacros.tbp to TheBat! as follows:

TheBat! | Options | Preferences | Plug-ins | Add

On my system (and probably on yours), once the mymacros plug-in has
been added, using

%RegRead(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation\ActiveTimeBias)

in a template returns the number of minutes by which UTC differs from
my computer's time of day.

Where I live, the time is either:

  EST [GMT-0500], when GMT is 5 hours, i.e. 300 minutes, ahead of my
  system time. 
  
  or
  
  EDT [GMT-0400], when GMT is 4 hours, i.e. 240 minutes, ahead of my
  system time.

Since ActiveTimeZone is one of my Quick Templates, using
%QINCLUDEActiveTimeZone in a template returns my seasonally adjusted
time zone.

You need to change my numbers of minutes (two places, each surrounded by
quotes) and my time zone abbreviations (two places, each surrounded by
quotes) appropriately, to make ActiveTimeZone work on your system.


 ActiveTimeZone 
%-
%IF(%RegRead(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation\ActiveTimeBias)=300,EST)%-
%-
%IF(%RegRead(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation\ActiveTimeBias)=240,EDT)%-
%-
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SOT: Re: Macro for time zone?

2004-01-13 Thread Allister Jenks 
Tuesday, January 13, 2004, 8:01:55 AM, you wrote:

SJL (The default in new mail and replies in Pocomail is, I think,
SJL day-date-time + TZ.) (BTW, there is supposed to be some subtle
SJL difference between GMT and UT...what the hell is it?  In message
SJL headers, is the reference to GMT or UT?)

UT is more correctly referred to as UTC (Universally Coordinated Time).
It's difference from GMT is academic for most as it is never more than a
second.

There's a pretty good explanation here:

http://www.apparent-wind.com/gmt-explained.html

Note I also found some sources which claimed that UTC was simply the
'new' version of GMT.  Not so.

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 Allister



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Re: SOT: Re: Macro for time zone?

2004-01-13 Thread Joseph N. 
Allister,

   On Monday, January 12, 2004, Allister Jenks wrote in
mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 There's a pretty good explanation here:
 http://www.apparent-wind.com/gmt-explained.html

Great reference!  Thanks for putting it on the list.

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Macro for time zone?

2004-01-12 Thread S J Love 
Dear Bat Persons,

I looked at the Help File re time/date macros but could not see the
answer for this one.

In my templates for New messages, the time macro is %TIME, and in the
replies template, the time macro is %OTimeLongEn.  I think these are
the defaults.  I recently changed the macro in 'Replies' to %OTime.

However, I was thinking it would be good to have an indication of time
zone (TZ).  eg  where I am (New South Wales, Australia), the time zone (with
daylight saving) is GMT + 1100.  Of course message headers include
indications of time zone...

(The default in new mail and replies in Pocomail is, I think,
day-date-time + TZ.) (BTW, there is supposed to be some subtle
difference between GMT and UT...what the hell is it?  In message
headers, is the reference to GMT or UT?)

I could not find out how to automatically include an indication of TZ
(it would be good if it was automatic for when daylight saving ends
here)...but ended up 'manually' adding the time zone (+ 1100) to my
New message and Reply message templates...ie %TIME + 1100, and
%OTimeLongEn + 1100, respectively.

Help please.

Ta muchly

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Kind regards,

Steve

ARMIDALE NSW AUSTRALIA

Tuesday, 13 January 2004 05:48 + 1100

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Re: Macro for time zone?

2004-01-12 Thread Peter Meyns 
Hi S,

on Tue, 13 Jan 2004 06:01:55 +1100GMT (12.01.04, 20:01 +0100GMT here),
you wrote in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] :

SJL I looked at the Help File re time/date macros but could not see the
SJL answer for this one.

You need regular expressions for this in The Bat!. Here is the one I
use to produce the above text:

on%SETPATTREGEXP=(?m-s)on%SETPATTREGEXP=(?m-s)^Date\:\s*?((.*?[\d]{4})\s*?([\d]{0,2}\:[\d]{0,2})\s*?(.*))%REGEXPMATCH=%HEADERSGMT
 (%ODATESHORT, %OTIME +0100GMT here),
you wrote in mid:%SETPATTREGEXP=;(.*)%REGEXPMATCH=%OMSGID :
%CURSOR

Adjust it to your needs and insert it in your template.

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