:: 20-Nov-1998 00:44 (Friday) ::
Rewrote -until, -h and hour handling today. All of them are ‘:’ now aware.
Whoever wrote that stuff originally was one heck of a lazy SOB. -until works
again (obviously).
I rewrote Do…/UndoCheckpoint() and some buffer code as well. The client
only uses one checkpoint file (for all contests together) now. I think I
forgot to mention (last week?) that the checkpoint time interval option
is now obsolete. The interval is now computed dynamically and is the greater
of one percent average change and one minute.
Fetches and flushes invoked from the command line are now correctly logged
to file/mail now. I’m sure that those odd-ball users who don’t trust stats
will appreciate this.
Time stamps are now tagged as being “UTC” rather than “GMT”. Besides being
technically correct, I expect that this will greatly expand the vocabulary
of the people who thought GMT stood for “General Mountain Time” (yes, that
is a real quotation).
I haven’t heard from dbaker regarding the potentially-new euro proxy yet.
From what I hear, he’s very busy counting finger requests.
Davehart has kindly accepted to redesign the buffer file format. Although
we won’t (technically speaking) need it for implementing POW, its an ideal
opportunity I’d rather not pass up.