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 Message 1473 
 Ward Dossche to Kees van Eeten 
 Re: Dailylists with makenl_ng 
 24 Nov 17 13:46:27 
 
Kees,
 
Kv> From one source two updates are received on Wednesday, one with the
Kv> Wednesday
Kv> daynumber and one with the Friday daynumber. If succesive updates are
Kv> available, on Thursdays the Friday daynumber will be preferred when the
Kv> sort is made on suffix. Sorting on c-date would solve this. For the odd
Kv> occation
Kv> where the above is the case, it is probably not worth the effort to
Kv> have it implemented. I think Ward will agree. ;)
 
Do I have to? 8-)
 
The point I would like to make is that it is absolutely silly to produce 2
ZONE1 files on Wednesday with an interval of 2-3 hours, one having the Friday
Julian-date.
 
There will be another ZONE1-file a day later which may contain more current
information than the ZONE1-file with Friday's Julian date ... hence on Friday
a ZONE1-file with non-current information risks to be used when sticking to
Wednesday's file.
 
All that can be avoided by simply producing a single ZONE1-file every day of
the week using a single procedure with a single set of region-files and drop
the Wednesday's version with Friday's Julian date.
 
My opinion as the longest serving nodelist clerc at Zone-level having produced
so far 1,668 nodelists and maybe the same number of dailylsts.
 
 \%/@rd

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