Re: change username based on date -> gmtime

[Sven G. <mai...@gu...>]

* Troy Piggins <tr...@pi...> [2005-07-28 11:30]:
> ... So for example my usenet identity for July would be
> 050...@pi... and that email address would only be valid for
> a month.

and when you use it on 2005-07-31 then
it will become invalid the next day? ;-)

> Is there a method in s-lang/slrn to achieve something
> like this (which didn't work when I tested it) :
>   set username "`date +%y%m`usenet"

i suppose you can use the gmtime function for this:

  % this creates the Message-ID: line - example:
  % Message-ID: <200...@gu...>
  static define create_msg_id ()
  {
     variable tm = gmtime (_time ());
     return sprintf ("%d-%02d-%02dT%02d-%02d-%02...@gu...",
                     tm.tm_year + 1900, tm.tm_mon + 1, tm.tm_mday,
                     tm.tm_hour, tm.tm_min, tm.tm_sec);
  }

but i know some folks have already done this with slrn,
so posting to news.software.readers should do the trick.

> As a side note/question - I leave slrn running for
> long periods of time.  If I were to successfully carry
> out the above, I imagine I would need to interpret
> the .sl file every month to update the username.

no - the function should do it all on the fly.

but will you ignore replies to posts which simply
come in "late"?  you never know what you'll miss.

> Is there a way to automate this, or would I just have to
> remember to quit and restart slrn every month.
> 
> -- 
> Troy Piggins - Been a novice linux user since 1998
>              - When do I become an expert?
> RedHat 9: mutt 1.5.9i, procmail 3.22, postfix 2.2.4, slrn 0.9.8.1,
>           vim 6.1, kernel 2.4.20-31.9

time to upgrade your vim.. ;-)

Sven

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