[Babase] Psion-INTERACT time data bug
Karl O. Pinc
kop at meme.com
Sat Nov 19 15:19:48 EST 2005
When the foxpro system takes data from the Psions and
puts it into INTERACT it truncates the seconds portion.
This is a problem because it should really be rounding.
If an interaction time is 2:23:59PM the time should really
be rounded to 2:24PM but my foxpro program has been truncating
to 2:23PM.
The design I have for the new Psion loader will retain the
seconds. I have a rounding function which can be used to
round to the nearest minute if desired.
The question is what to do?
1) Document and ignore the problem.
2) Take all the Psion data (the .PTS files, which, BTW, is
what you should be archiving with the same zeal as
the field notebook pages) and re-load
them into the new system. This does not sound hard
but maybe you don't care.
3) Something else.
Karl <kop at meme.com>
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