Re: Questions

At 16:31 02.4.2000 -0400,   JON PARIS  of halinfo  wrote:

>The result in Res (if it were defined as 2A which is the smallest it
should be)
>will be '11'.  Why - well .....

Hi Jon, 
your "1+1"-Answer for RES is perfect and an excellent training sample for
me as a learning/newcomer in the RPG-IV-World. Seriously, I wonder what I
have to learn in addition besides that famous (=wonderful) new Red Book...

So, that was the serious part. Now to something completely different:

you may have noticed, that the Message 

          X-Originating-IP: [202.9.165.19]
        From: "keshava narasimha" <anandthirta@hotmail.com>

was sent

Received: from 202.9.165.19 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP;
        Sun, 02 Apr 2000 07:08:45 PDT

and then

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then

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and finally
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And what does this tell us?* 

Well then, if you convert (for example) the timestamp 09:10:07 - 0500 GMT
(I'm sitting in Europe, folks) it will result in 04:10:07, no doubt, If you
are aware of the fact, that this specific HOTMAIL Server is located in the
USA and has a correct time [despite the fact, that it is a Bill Gates
Product]. Fine.

Looking at the geography, I assume, that the guy Anandathirta (keshava
narasimha) may live in India, so I rotate my Round Papermade Illuminated
Globe (or simply: terrestrial sphere) BACKWARDS, from Illinois to India.
Fine. 

But: Rotating backwards means clearly,  I have to SUBSTRACT  12:00:00 hours
from HOTMAILS local 04:10:07, thats an Indian 16:10:07 in the afternoon of
the day BEFORE the given date, which was April 2, 2000.

Got it?   =:-)   
(Cheers, this hump of beer goes to my account)


>I can only hope that this is some kind of "lets see who can write the most
>stupid obscure code in the world" contest because if I ever caught anyone
>programming like this I'd fire them!

Dear Dave Gibbs, Moderator-san,
the comments from the australian champ to Jon's sensitive eruption is worth
your faboulous 10.000 line RPG-II-program with all indicators used:
PLEASE, 
PLEASE let us know if you gave that to him  for debugging reasons?!?!!!!
With Greenscreen-Terminal?? Single-Line-Editor?? Punched Cards?!
PLEASE!!!!!      ;-)


I LOVE THIS RPG FORUM
István (from Austria)

*note: please do not countercheck, correct or reply to my artistic time
calculation, it wasn't easy to find that way to April 1st. 
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