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Re: convert to date

Post by dunbarx » Mon Aug 11, 2025 2:33 pm

Some here do not know that Jacque is a woman, nor how to pronounce her name.

But jwack???

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Re: convert to date

Post by SparkOut » Mon Aug 11, 2025 4:56 pm

That's a story of hers, from childhood when her brother couldn't say Jackie. It tickled me, and now I can't help saying [writing] it. As well as klausimausi.

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Re: convert to date

Post by jacque » Mon Aug 11, 2025 5:29 pm

dunbarx wrote:
Mon Aug 11, 2025 2:33 pm
Some here do not know that Jacque is a woman, nor how to pronounce her name.

But jwack???
He read this: https://jacque.on-rev.com/jacque/jacque.irev

I'm pretty easy with whatever people call me or how they spell it.
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Re: convert to date

Post by dunbarx » Mon Aug 11, 2025 7:06 pm

KlausMaus I have heard before. But Klausimausi??? He is not a toddler, you know. :roll:

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Re: convert to date

Post by CAsba » Tue Aug 12, 2025 10:11 am

Hi Klaus,
All I know is when I used "the first word of fld "startyr" instead of just "fld "startyr"" (and similar for day and month) the derived date was able to be converted to seconds. As it was pointed out, there must have been some invisible character in the fields that I wasn't aware of that was causing the problem. I still do not know what the cause of the problem was, only the solution.

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Re: convert to date

Post by Klaus » Tue Aug 12, 2025 10:57 am

AHA! :-)
Thank you for the info!

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Re: convert to date

Post by Klaus » Tue Aug 12, 2025 11:01 am

dunbarx wrote:
Mon Aug 11, 2025 7:06 pm
KlausMaus I have heard before. But Klausimausi??? He is not a toddler, you know. :roll:

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I did NOT hear KlausMaus before, but I still have an emailaddress @me.com with the name
of "klausimausi", which I use from time to time if my own address is on some blacklist.
This, adding an i after the actual name is a common german belittlement of names, my dear Craigi. 8)

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Re: convert to date

Post by jacque » Tue Aug 12, 2025 5:17 pm

In English the diminutive is "ie", which is why I got "Jackie". I didn't like it so I changed the spelling when I was 13, thus introducing all kinds of confusion among strangers and acquaintances.
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Re: convert to date

Post by CAsba » Wed Aug 13, 2025 9:53 am

Hmmm, belittlement, dimunutive, confusion. By comparison, coding is quite straightforward !

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