Subj : Re: MPL DateStr and User Data
To   : maskreet
From : Gryphon
Date : Fri May 09 2025 11:53 pm

On 08 May 2025 at 07:29p, maskreet pondered and said...
 
 ma> On 09 May 2025, Gryphon said the following...
 ma>  
 ma>  Gr> I'm having a issue with a userlist MPL that is supposed to read the u
 ma>  Gr> list and display the information. I am using datestr to format the
 ma>  Gr> UserFirstOn and UserLastOn date/time variables. But the output is
 ma>  Gr> completely wrong.
 ma> 
 ma> There's something I experienced with a Python script and formatting a
 ma> last call list for DoorParty. I don't remember exactly what it was, I'd
 ma> have to look, but it was something with Mystic's date format being
 ma> incorrectly interpreted by Python, and it being a DOS-packed 32bit
 ma> datetime format that screwed me up. It might be something similar in
 ma> nature to what you're experiencing, because what got me about your post
 ma> was I was also getting future dates in the 2030s and it should have been
 ma> correct. I had to ask ChatGPT to help me with that one.
 ma> 
 ma> You'd think though that it would format correctly with MPL and all, but
 ma> maybe it's a bit of oversight on g00's part.

Yeah this is what I was thinking too. I tried the datestrjulian and the datej2g and nothing worked. I even tried to use mci2str('FO') and it only showed my first login.

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