On Sunday 26 March 2006 21:41, John Jordan wrote:
>On 26 Mar 2006, at 14:08, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> >[HH]:MM
>> >
>> >All is peace and joy now. :)
>> >
>> >Documentation for the formatting codes would have helped. But thank
>> >goodness this list is here!
>>
>> Well, I could see from the results that the HH: had a 0-23 range,
>> and that the carryover into the next day was being tossed out, but
>> like you, had no clue as to how to fix it. I'm glad that helped,
>> and that you posted back that it did. Thank you.
>>
>> Just to clarify, is it now possible to get answers in the [HH]
>> format that will reach to 99 before the overflow now? What happens
>> if you use [HHH]:DD instead in that event?
>
>I don't know. My total was 95-something before I edited it down to 61.
> This was a course outline that a government agency wanted showing a
> breakdown of how long would be spent on each topic, and the entire
> course was to be a minimum of 60 hours. I started out figuring a bit
> on the long side, just to make sure I hit at least 60 hours. When I
> saw that it came to 95+ I knew I had to pare it back. Of course, in
> the real world the instructor is going to teach what is necessary to
> teach and take however long it takes. We just won't tell the
> government that we're going to spend more than 60 hours in order to
> do the job right, instead of following their requirements.:)
I see, typical of gvmt projects, as usual. One never, ever tells the
frogs you can do it without having at least a +100% blue sky additive
someplace in the calculations, buried deep enough they can't find it.
Rather like my teaching about 6 flaps (air force types) how to maintain
a security camera system after our contract to do it was completed.
Teaching was part of the contract, which I got thrown into my lap when
the head guy took a walk with about 5 months left. So I wrote up a 125
question multiple choice test to see what I had to teach. Boy was I
surprised at that, one 'bored with the whole scene' black boy who would
rather be playing a sax at the officers club, handed it back to me in
about 20 minutes, 100% correct! The next best score was about 15
correct. So I started from scratch with basic dc circuits and bored
the one guy who did know what was what plumb out of his skull. I tried
to explain it to him one on one, apologizing for the boreing material,
but this was 1962, and all he could see was that I was white & he was
black, and black was beautiful. A electronics talent like that,
wasted. Very Very Sad IMO. OTOH, I never got to hear him playing his
sax either, so there may well have been a prodigious talent there too.
>> In case someone wanted a YY/MM/DD HH:MM:SS format, I wonder how
>> thats accomplished?
>
>Hard to say. I'd start with exactly what you have above and poke at it
> until it appeared the way I wanted it. I can't find any documentation
> on the formatting codes, so the only way to figure it out is to
> dissect some of the other formats to see how they work. That's how I
> figured out that I needed the {} around HH.
Well, if I ever need it, I'll probably do the 10,000 monkeys bit
myself. :)> <--smiley, wearing winter beard.
>Thanks for the help earlier. The doc is finished and a PDF has been e-
>mailed. Now I can resume my life. :)
Good to hear, and I'm glad that my offhand comment helped.
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