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From: drp@dosbears.UUCP (David R. Preston)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Need autosave macro for Winword
Message-ID: <367@dosbears>
Date: 1 Jun 91 04:38:19 GMT
References: <1991May30.063956.9027@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <7906@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Reply-To: drp%dosbears.uucp@ingres.com (David R. Preston)
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>In <1991May30.063956.9027@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> gg2@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Guy Gallo) writes:
>
>I think there is a bug here. If the time *was* between 11:56am and
>11:59am, then after adding 4 mins the time will be between 12.00 and
>12.03 but still be "am". It will have 12 added to it to make it 24.0x

No, it won't.  Are you confusing noon and midnight?

>>If ap$ = "PM"  And hour <> 12 Then

ap$ not "PM", so don't add 12.

>I think the solution is to do the conversion from 12 to 24 hour clock
>*before* adding in the 4 mins.

I don't think that would help much, but I'll look at it.  By now
you've seen my posting of the one that actually works (the first
version didn't put in the non-significant zeroes).


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