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William Leue
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Posted: 05:59pm 08 May 2023

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I wonder if this is a bug in the EPOCH() function in MMBASIC VER 5.07.00, or just my usual stupidity?

This little program gives me a syntax error when it hits the epoch() function:

option default integer
fname$ = "Solver.bas"
mdt$ = MM.INFO$(MODIFIED fname$)
print mdt$
secs = epoch(mdt$)
print secs
end

The date/time string printed out on line 4 looks fine: "08-05-2023 13:58:04"
But I get "Error on line 5: Invalid date"

Any clues?

-Bill

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Posted: 06:09pm 08 May 2023

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Which 'mite ? I don't think 5.07.00 is the latest release version on any of them.

Best wishes,

Tom

Game*Mite, CMM2 Welcome Tape, Creaky old text adventures

William Leue
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Posted: 06:11pm 08 May 2023

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thwill said Which 'mite ? I don't think 5.07.00 is the latest release version on any of them.

Best wishes,

Tom

Color Maximite 2 Gen 2. I haven't seen any more recent releases for the CMM2 except for betas, but I may have missed one.

-Bill

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Posted: 06:16pm 08 May 2023

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The latest release version on Geoff's website is 5.07.01.

I'm pretty sure that I've found and Peter has fixed at least one bug in the CMM2 EPOCH() implementation, but that may have been for one of the 5.07.02 betas.

Best wishes,

Tom
Edited 2023-05-09 04:17 by thwill

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William Leue
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Posted: 06:20pm 08 May 2023

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Thanks, Tom! For now, I will just write my own version of epoch(), not too hard.

-Bill

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Posted: 06:35pm 08 May 2023

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The time string from modified is the wrong way round - should be "YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS". This is certainly corrected in the current beta but I'm not sure when the correction was made. in fact the latest betas allows both time formats for epoch
Edited 2023-05-09 04:39 by matherp

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Posted: 07:29pm 08 May 2023

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William Leue said ...I will just write my own version of epoch()...

http://www.fruitoftheshed.com/MMBasic.UnixTime-or-Epoch-Time.ashx

may help. written for the Micromite, works well but I think you'd be better tweaking it to fit the PicoMite because there are functions in the later basics that are not present for the micromite e.g. Field() This function works tightly with my Split() function (which is comparable with Field) referenced in the wiki.

This UnxTime() function gets battered in loads of my code
Edited 2023-05-09 05:31 by CaptainBoing

William Leue
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Posted: 08:06pm 08 May 2023

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matherp said The time string from modified is the wrong way round - should be "YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS". This is certainly corrected in the current beta but I'm not sure when the correction was made. in fact the latest betas allows both time formats for epoch

Thanks, Peter! I had just finished my code where I turn around the date fields and yes, it works fine.

-Bill

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