Picture Update…

Well, I’ve finally started working on converting GeorgePictures^? to the new thumbnail preview mode (as the rest of the MattPictures are). It’s a pseudo-slow process, but it’s necessary. We’re getting somewhere…

Sadly, there’s not much more to say today.

Fixed The Time!

After getting ‘bored’ and remembering this particular project (mentioned in NewsJuly1503 if I recall), I decided to tinker with Perl and the Date::Handler -> LocalTimePlugin. As it came ‘stock’, it didn’t format the time in a way that I liked…

Changing this was somewhat complex (only in locating the right places to fix) but yet strikingly simple. man date and man strftime came in very helpful for changing ‘variables’ (as they were). That made the backend stuff do what I wanted (e.g. print out Jul instead of July, Aug instead of August, Tue instead of Tuesday, etc.). Making the frontend (the Plugin) do what I wanted was even simpler — just a matter of changing the order of appearance and removing some commas, etc.

But anyway, I’ve also set some preferences for the plugin, so it automatically reverts to US/Central, so %LOCALTIME% will produce this: Monday, 20 August 2007, 21:43:42 (US/Central) and %LOCALTIME{US/Pacific}% will produce this: Monday, 20 August 2007, 19:43:42 (US/Pacific)

Go Me!

This post was upgraded to the MZ Online Blog on 8/20/07