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From: buckley@odin.m2c.org (Martin J. Buckley)
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Subject: Using filters
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Date: 3 Feb 90 01:31:12 GMT
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Recently began investigating how best to implement a small call tracking
system and thought to use MH with tickets distributed via mail with
global folders as the archive.  MH would seem to have a powerful enough
display mechanism for handling most reporting.

Creating tickets is easy, all that is needed is a component file with the 
necessary fields.

Encountered a problem when trying to update an existing ticket(message).
Wanted to accomplish this with repl.  Have created a replcomps that
matches my component file and sets up the body to contain:

Header
------

 ******** updated by: name at ##########


previous body.


The problem is in creating a readable form of the current data.  From
what I read in mh-format,  $(timenow) is the seconds since the unix
epoch.  How do I get this to a human readable form?  Have I missed some
other way of generating the date in a message?  

Was hoping not to have to send the message through a dummy acount just
to obtain the actual date.  

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks
  Martin Buckley

Martin Buckley
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