Fields (was RE: various questions)
Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Tue, 21 Sep 1999 18:52:01 -0700
At 08:59 AM 9/20/99 +0100, Caolan McNamara wrote:
>On 19-Sep-99 Justin Bradford wrote:
>>4. Fields
>>
>> Expand time to time/date, with multiple formats?
>> ie. time: 12:MM:SS AM/PM, 24:MM:SS (optional seconds, too?)
>> date: MM/DD/YY(YY); DD/MM/YY(YY); Sep(tember) 19, 1999; 19 Sep 1999
>> where either time, date, or both are selected for display.
>>
>> Should the time/date be optionally stored, rather than just the current
>> time/date. That combined with an option in dialog (and right click menu)
>> to update to current time/date might be useful (as a simple timestamp).
>
>What word does is like so, in the text stream you have...
>0x19 field starts
>the field code goes here
>0x20 field middle
>the last known field text goes here
>0x21 field ends
>
>This way you can optionally update a document to the new values that
>should be in the field, or continue using the last unupdated values,
>i.e. edit a document and leave the update time alone, and so forth.
That sounds cool. I suspect it wouldn't be too much work to add code to the
field tag which does the same thing. Could we just add a LAST= attribute to
the tag in our file format?
Actually, for i18n reasons, we may want to change that tag into a container
instead, but I'll defer to Jeff there. :-)
Paul
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