Hi Maurice!

Jame Clay wrote in the LINUX echo:
>Maurice Kinal wrote in the LINUX echo:
> In FTN-Packet-0.09, I don't see where the FTN compliant month is taken
> care of and from what I see in Packet.pm the call to localtime() will
> yeild an integer month that conforms to every standard EXCEPT FTN which
> subtracts one from the value for month.

    Perhaps I'm missreading it, but it seems to me that the month value in an
ftsc compatible date is zero based...


>  In a bash script I've done this
> to take care of this extremely sad situation;
> PKT_HDR_MONTH=$((`date +"%m"`-1))
> For July that will yeild 6 which for everyone else will be June.

   Hmm...  Although the date command as used there returns the month as a 1
based integer, the localtime function itself returns it as a zero based
integer.  


> Apparently the FTSC is wiser than the usual suspects who write
> standards.  :::snicker:::

      Even if it is an actual issue, a zero based index is just as valid
as a 1 based index...


>  Other that that I see no issues with this particular module ....

    If you or anyone else do find such issues, please comment on it, preferably
in the PERL echo...




Jame

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