Hey Jame!

Hopefully this is the last message from me about this particular
subject. :::knocking on wood:::

I more or less took your advice about man pages except decided to let
the perldoc site do all the dirty work for me and found this within http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/localtime.html;

"$mon the month in the range 0..11, with 0 indicating January and 11
indicating December. This makes it easy to get a month name from a list"

That makes perfect sense but doesn't really explain the 16 bit binary
month in FTN pkt headers or does it? Do any of your modules use the
output from an incoming packet in that manner? Offhand I cannot really
see it being of any real consequence but then again I haven't seen the
value of ANY of the data within a pkt header so I might be extremely prejudiced.

At the very least I now know why $mon is 0..11 in localtime and it has
nothing to do with direct display of it's value and more to do with zero
based lists, arrays, etc.

Life is good,
Maurice

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Hi Maurice!

I more or less took your advice about man pages except decided to
let the perldoc site do all the dirty work for me

I often find myself using that site even though I have the main Perl documentation installed locally...<g>

and found this within
http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/localtime.html;
"$mon the month in the range 0..11, with 0 indicating January and 11 indicating December. This makes it easy to get a month name from a list"

As you mentioned, that makes sense.

That makes perfect sense but doesn't really explain the 16 bit binary
month in FTN pkt headers or does it?

Wasn't 16 bits the 'standard' size for an integer at the time? (And still so, for at least some systems.)

Do any of your modules use the output from an incoming packet
in that manner?

In which "manner"?

Offhand I cannot really see it being of any real consequence but
then again I haven't seen the value of ANY of the data within a
pkt header so I might be extremely prejudiced.

<shrug> The packet header is basically for information above the level of they message itself, I've always thought...

At the very least I now know why $mon is 0..11 in localtime and it has nothing to do with direct display of it's value and more to do with zero based lists, arrays, etc.

That's what I've thought, too...




Jame

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