Subj : same as it ever was To : Nancy Backus From : Maurice Kinal Date : Sat Jan 13 2018 05:19:50 Hey Nancy! MK>> things can be better. NB> I'll say that, too... when appropriate... ;) In this case I think you might be right. I've been experimenting with it and so far haven't been able to improve upon it whatsoever. The best so far has been in the order of 5-ish milliseconds. I was guesstimating that I might be able to trim it down to microseconds but so far no such luck. NB> I still have a smidge of the leftover Glenmorangie I don't recall the last time I had any but offhand am guessing at least 25-ish years ago. Same with Oban which I spied a bottle of when purchasing the 15yo Glenlivet. That might be something worth reinvestigating on 2019-01-01 but am sure I will have to plan ahead for ... say Semptember-ish again. ----- ":read !datediff '2018-09-01' '2018-01-13'" starts 231 days ----- ":read !datediff '2018-09-01' '2018-01-13'" ends 'datediff' is a little bash script I wrote just for the occasion as a companion to the "bottles of beer" subject generator. It now appears to have evolved into an offline Fidonet "bottles of beer" msg generator for Little Mikey. So far it has created two test msg's posted in the TUXPOWER echo and might see some airtime here in ASIAN_LINK come 2018-09-24, just in time for the 2019-01-01 "bottles of beer" countdown ... maybe. Maybe we'll think up something better and perhaps less annoying? ;-) Life is good, Maurice .... Future cybertoasts of note: 2019-01-01 is 353 days from now and falls on a Tuesday. 2024-11-05 is 2488 days from now and falls on a Tuesday. --- GNU bash, version 4.4.12(1)-release (x86_64-silvermont-linux-gnu) * Origin: Little Mikey's Brain - Ladysmith BC, Canada (1:153/7001) .