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Re: Conversion of ISO Date-stamps into Weekday Numbers

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>                Re: Conversion of ISO Date-stamps into Weekday Numbers
>   From: jgharston <jgh@arcade.demon.co.uk>
>Milton Lachman wrote:
>> And just in the nick of time for the 1st of April, jgharston's BBC
>> BASIC routine--esp. having you convert mid$ into spectrum BASIC--
>> is merely a troll.
>
>It wasn't a troll. You provided some code with the unstated expectation
>that people convert it to Spectrum Basic. I provided some prewritten,
>tested and extensively-used code with the _explicit_ statement that it
>could be converted into Spectrum Basic. I may eventially get around to
>doing that conversion myself, but would have no objection to somebody
>else doing it before me.

It's a troll to a certain %, given that your code doesn't convert
ISO date-stamps, as explicitly stated, nor does it convert NON-
Gregorian dates, as also for the original post.
The follow-up to it was posted on the Ides of March on
the Gregorian calendar instead of tomorrow, which is the anniversary
of Julius Caesar's death on his Julian calendar--as egregious a
faux pas as not posting it in ZX BASIC on the 30th anniversary of 
the ZX 81--but this thread started last year as an academic exercise
to exclusively use string variables in superBASIC. Therefore the
thread is meant for the QL, which qualifies as a "sinclair machine"
even if not a ZX 83 officially.

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Re: Conversion of ISO Date-stamps into Weekday Numbers lachman@ebony.ppc.ubc.ca (Milton Lachman) - 2011-03-15 10:26 +0000
  Re: Conversion of ISO Date-stamps into Weekday Numbers lachman@ebony.ppc.ubc.ca (Milton Lachman) - 2011-03-15 12:00 +0000
  Re: Conversion of ISO Date-stamps into Weekday Numbers "Brian Gaff" <Briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2011-03-16 10:15 +0000
    Re: Conversion of ISO Date-stamps into Weekday Numbers spike1@freenet.co.uk - 2011-03-16 12:26 +0000
      Re: Conversion of ISO Date-stamps into Weekday Numbers "Brian Gaff" <Briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2011-03-17 08:36 +0000
        Re: Conversion of ISO Date-stamps into Weekday Numbers spike1@freenet.co.uk - 2011-03-17 09:36 +0000
          Re: Conversion of ISO Date-stamps into Weekday Numbers korax1214 <korax1214@gmail.com> - 2011-03-17 16:15 -0700
            Re: Conversion of ISO Date-stamps into Weekday Numbers jgharston <jgh@arcade.demon.co.uk> - 2011-03-17 17:49 -0700
              Re: Conversion of ISO Date-stamps into Weekday Numbers "Brian Gaff" <Briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2011-03-18 07:10 +0000
        Re: Conversion of ISO Date-stamps into Weekday Numbers lachman@ebony.ppc.ubc.ca (Milton Lachman) - 2011-03-23 18:06 +0000
          Re: Conversion of ISO Date-stamps into Weekday Numbers jgharston <jgh@arcade.demon.co.uk> - 2011-03-24 16:04 -0700
            Re: Conversion of ISO Date-stamps into Weekday Numbers lachman@ebony.ppc.ubc.ca (Milton Lachman) - 2011-03-27 16:48 +0000
        Re: Conversion of ISO Date-stamps into Weekday Numbers lachman@ebony.ppc.ubc.ca (Milton Lachman) - 2011-03-23 21:32 +0000

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