[Info-vax] Long uptime cut short by Hurricane Sandy

[David Froble]

Paul Sture wrote:
> In article <keenff$tel$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>,
>  Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> 
>> On 2013-01-31 20:22, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>> In article <keeb7i$e15$1 at dont-email.me>,
>>> 	Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
>>>> On 2013-01-31 17:38:45 +0000,   VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG said:
>>>>
>>>>> $ filename =
>>>>> filenameprefix+"_"+F$fao("!19AS",F$cvtime(,"COMPARISON"))-"-"-"-"-"
>>>>> "-":"-":"+".dmp"
>>>> Yeah.  Or add the prefix and the underscore into the f$fao, as that
>>>> avoids clobbering caracters in the prefix.
>>> And tell me how the above is not cryptic?  Just what is the difference
>>> between the first dash and the second?  Or the third?  And would anyone
>>> normal determine that?  :-)
>> Maybe it would be more obvious with some appropriately placed spaces...
>>
>> $ filename = filenameprefix + "_" + 
>> F$fao("!19AS",F$cvtime(,"COMPARISON")) - "-" - "-" - "-" - ":" - ":" + 
>> ".dmp"
>>
>> Ie, remove three dashes and two colons, and then add something at the 
>> end. (Ignoring what's going on at the beginning.)
> 
> I prefer to space it out like that.
> 
>> As the for F$FAO and F$CVTIME functions, you obviously need to read the 
>> documentation to know exactly what they produce.
> 
> Certainly when I've been away from DCL for a while, I will put a comment 
> in such as:
> 
> $! F$cvtime returns yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss.cc. Strip dashes and colons.
> 
> Actually, in this example I'd probably use f$element delimited on the 
> space to get separate date and time variables, which I'd concatenate.
> 
> Here's the bash I use to format a daily backup prefix:
> 
> # Get date as YYYY.MM-DD-HHMM
> NOW=$(date +"%Y-%m-%d-%H%M")
> DUMPID="sture-$NOW"
> echo $DUMPID
> 
> Sample output:
> 
> sture-2013-02-02-1507
> 

So, which is wrong here, the comment or the result?  (No "." in result 
after "YYYY")