Hi, Paul,

on Mittwoch, 02. März 2005 at 21:42 you wrote to amanda-users:

PB> Paul Bijnens wrote:
>> especially conffile.c, line 2360 or about (in 2.4.4p4).

PB> Following up to myself, because I forgot the conclusion:

PB> It is absolute time:

PB>     2360 static int get_time()
PB>     2361 {
PB>     2362     time_t st = start_time.r.tv_sec;
PB>     2363     struct tm *stm;
PB>     2364     int hhmm;
PB>     2365
PB>     2366     get_conftoken(INT);
PB>     2367     hhmm = tokenval.i;
PB>     2368
PB>     2369     stm = localtime(&st);
PB>     2370     st -= stm->tm_sec + 60 * (stm->tm_min + 60 * stm->tm_hour);
PB>     2371     st += ((hhmm/100*60) + hhmm%100)*60;
PB>     2372
PB>     2373     if (st-start_time.r.tv_sec<-43200)
PB>     2374         st += 86400;
PB>     2375
PB>     2376     return st;
PB>     2377 }

PB> Line 2370 calculates midnight.
PB> Line 2371 adds the hhmm, resulting in absolute time.

Looks like a relative functionality could be added "relatively" easy
;-)

I CC: this to the hackers ...
(@hackers:please refer to the users-list for the whole story ...)

Thanks for digging that up, Paul.
-- 
best regards,
Stefan

Stefan G. Weichinger
mailto:monitor AT oops.co DOT at