[Info-vax] Text processing examples with Fortran requested
Paul Sture
paul.nospam at sture.ch
Wed Nov 18 10:32:21 EST 2009
In article <7mia17F3i6h8eU1 at mid.individual.net>,
billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:
> In article <007f2bc1$0$26892$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>,
> JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> > Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> >
> >> I had to point out that most modern conveniences; e.g. elevators don't
> >> really care what year it is. They just went on working.
> >
> > 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 had a VCR which refused to do timed recordings after Y2K. The first
one I had had no concept of the day of week so would presumably have
been OK.
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Paul Sture
c.o.v
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