[Info-vax] Text processing examples with Fortran requested

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <he0sc1$kla$1 at naig.caltech.edu>,
	glen herrmannsfeldt <gah at ugcs.caltech.edu> writes:
> Bill Gunshannon <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu> wrote:
> (snip, someone wrote)
> 
>>> Actually, elevators do care about the date and time. They are programmed
>>> to behave differently depending on day/time of week in large buildings.
>  
>>> They have different behaviour depending on time of day, cater to
>>> cleaning crews at night and on weekends etc.
>  
>> Time of day and day of week, maybe.  But year?  I doubt it.
> 
> I have a sprinkler time that needs to know the year.  Among the
> selections, you can can select watering on even or odd days.  To
> correclty compute that you need month, day, and year.

And, is it really that important?  Would the world end if your lawn
didn't get watered today?  Like I said, more hype than substance.
I have a perfvectly functional lawn sprinkler system that doesn't
need the year, the month, the day, the hour or any other information.
It's called a spigot.  I turn it on when the lawn needs watering and
turn it off when it's done.  Never confuse gimmickery with necessity.

> 
> Elevators probably don't need even/odd days, so they probably
> don't need year.  Then again, if they keep a log with date stamps...

A log of what?  Of just what value would it be to know that an elevator
went tot he 5th floor at 11:15AM on 22 June 2008?  

bill

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