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 Message 48778 
 Rob Swindell (on Windows 11) to Git commit to main/sbbs/master 
 src/sbbs3/sbbsecho.c sbbsecho.h 
 19 Jan 26 15:07:49 
 
TZUTC: -0800
MSGID: 54210.syncprog@1:103/705 2dd4c307
PID: Synchronet 3.21b-Linux master/177a369d2 Jan 04 2026 GCC 12.2.0
TID: SBBSecho 3.34-Linux master/f6746e937 Jan 19 2026 GCC 12.2.0
BBSID: VERT
CHRS: ASCII 1
FORMAT: flowed
https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commit/eebfd74ddc924e1e98c2b159
Modified Files:
	src/sbbs3/sbbsecho.c sbbsecho.h
Log Message:
Unpack bundles starting from 6 weekdays ago, not (always) Sunday

There was a conversation in the SYNCHRONET echo/conference about message
import ordering and it occurred to me that SBBSecho shouldn't always start the
bundle search/unpack with Sunday (*.SU?) as we might import bundles out of
order if multiple bundles spanning multiple days came in at once (or were
collected over time without running SBBSecho import). Of course, the whole
"day of week" naming scheme doesn't work very well if the link is in a
different time zone, but this is no less accurate than just always starting the
search from Sunday (*.SU*) and will usually be more "chronologically" accurate.

Using UTC to determine the current "day of week" for creating and consuming
bundles would be more deterministic, but alas, it's not how things have been
done (anyone have a document/reference for the origination of the defacto
bundle naming scheme?).

FSC-23 refers to this scheme as "Day-of-week bullshit", and I have to agree.
UTC Day of year would've been a much better chronological and sequential
naming scheme, but I think some systems were sensistive to the size of bundles
and packets and needed them split-up and the DOS 8.3 filename limitation had
to be designed around.

One solution is to just always transfer packets and never bundles since packets
are usually unambiguously and sequentially named (SBBSecho supports this just
fine).

Increment version to 3.35
--- SBBSecho 3.34-Linux
 * Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)
SEEN-BY: 103/705 105/81 106/201 124/5016 128/187 129/14 153/757 7715
SEEN-BY: 154/10 30 110 203/0 218/700 221/0 226/30 227/114 229/110
SEEN-BY: 229/134 206 317 400 426 428 470 700 705 240/1120 5832 263/1
SEEN-BY: 266/512 280/464 5003 5006 291/111 292/8125 301/1 320/219
SEEN-BY: 322/757 341/66 234 342/200 396/45 423/120 460/58 256 1124
SEEN-BY: 633/280 712/848 770/1 902/26 5020/400 8912 5054/30 5075/35
PATH: 103/705 280/464 460/58 229/426


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