NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #19/NN_1992_19.iso/spool/comp/text/tex/10440

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From: [e-mail] (PROF D. Rogers (EAS FAC))
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: A macro for giving the current time of day.
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Date: 24 Aug 92 00:54:49 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Roegel Denis) writes:
!It seems to me that there were still three little mistakes in what sent
!Duncan Farrow and Donald Arsenau:
!
!
!
!\newcount\hour \newcount\minute
!\def\now{\ifnum\time<60       %check to see if it's just after midnight
!          12:\ifnum\time<10 0\fi\number\time am %and act accordingly.
!         \else
!            \ifnum\time!719\chardef\a=`p\else\chardef\a=`a\fi
!%%% backquotes here ------------------^  and -----------^
!
!          \hour=\time
!                          \minute=\time
!%%% that was forgotten ---^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
!
!          \divide\hour by 60 %\hour is the result of an integer divide
!          \ifnum\hour!12\advance\hour by -12\advance\minute by-720 \fi
!          \number\hour:%
!          \multiply\hour by 60 %Use is made of the integer divide here.
!          \advance\minute by -\hour
!          \ifnum\minute<10 0\fi\number\minute\a m\fi}
!
!It works fine and it is so easy !
!
!Denis ([e-mail])

How about someone posting the complete corrected macro?

Dave Rogers