Fwd: Re: [Orca-users] Re: Orca-users Digest, Vol 1, Issue 52

[Sean O'Neill]

Forwarding to orca-users.

>Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 16:23:39 -0600
>To: "Jon A. Tankersley" <jon.tankersley at eds.com>
>From: Sean O'Neill <sean at seanoneill.info>
>Subject: Re: [Orca-users] Re: Orca-users Digest, Vol 1, Issue 52
>
>At 04:09 PM 1/13/2003 -0600, Jon A. Tankersley wrote:
>>Hmmm... which version of Orca?  We've not seen any problem with the 
>>transition
>>between years, but then your EpochTime value might be suspect.  I always 
>>add a
>>localtime field to my orcallator data to 'help' sanity check the 
>>data.  It also
>>lets me use Excel or Gnuplot graph the data external to Orca.
>
>I think its the 0.27b3-"modified by me" version - I have some updates in 
>it that I promised to get back to Blair in a timely fashion ... well, I 
>haven't just yet LOL - sorry Blair.
>
>I was real suspect of the Epochtime myself so I wrote a small perl script 
>to pull this field out and print its converted values.  They all looked 
>correct.    Like I said, once pulled just January '03, everything worked 
>and the dates showing up in the graphs were correct.  Again - my 
>assumption is probably completely wrong because of all the things I was 
>doing to try to get it to work.
>
>I thought about your idea of adding a localtime field for pulling into 
>Excel for graphing myself but couldn't figure out what format to put the 
>date data-time into.  How do you format this field to include the date and 
>time so that Excel pulls it in correctly - I would assume without spaces 
>otherwise it would mess up Orca - I'm pretty sure anyway ?
>
>BTW, thanks for the reply.
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