[TRLog] Changing time after a contest
Robert Brandon
rbrandon@austin.ibm.com
Fri, 8 Dec 2000 08:31:46 -0600
There's a time changing utility on the TR web page. I haven't tried it, but
you may find it useful.
http://www.qth.com/tr/logconv.html
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-trlog@contesting.com [mailto:owner-trlog@contesting.com]On
Behalf Of Tom Hammond NOSS
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 8:11 AM
To: Rick Bullon; trlog@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TRLog] Setting date on computer
Rick:
Although I now see that you have found how to reset your clk/cal on your
PC, I'm gonne send this reply anyway, because I think it may help others
who find themselves in the position of having to correct a BUNCH of log
entries in an 'already-made' log.
Assuming you DO leave things as-is, changing the date post-contest is NO
MEAN FEAT at all!
Your log should look something like this: (MULTS & PTS truncated for brevity
2000 ARRL Sweepstakes KC5AJX
Band Date Time QSO# Call worked Rcvd P Ck Qth
---- ---- ---- ---- ----------- ---- - -- -----
10CW 07-Nov-80 21:00 1 N0SS 1 Q 58 MO
Since TRLog generates a straight ASCII file (Cabrillo or not), it's a
simple task to merely load the entire log into your wordprocessor (even
into Win9x's WORDPAD) and perform a single SEARCH & REPLACE of "NOV-80"
with "11-00_" (NOTE: In real use, the "_" should be replaced with a BLANK
SPACE which MUST be included to ensure that all data remains in its proper
column since we're replacing 6 characters ( Nov-80 ) with 5 real characters
( 11-00 ), plus a blank at the end. Then, RESAVE the file.
As a final note, I'd urge all contesters to try and find a good ASCII file
editor, either a commercial product (KEDIT (DOS), KEDITW (WIN), several
others), or one of the still-available SHAREWARE DOS ASCII editors such as
QEDIT (now "The SemWare Editor Jr") from
http://vivid.nbank.net/~semware/testdrive/tsejr4.zip.
When I say a 'good' ASCII editor, I'm referring to one which will permit
you to perform COLUMN-WISE edits (e.g. edit the data in a single column (or
multiple contiguous columns) of data (like changing the year in the example
above from "80" to "00"). WHile search-and-replace works well, there are
going to be times when only a column-wise editor will help to solve severe
problems in a log. Such editors are worth their weight in gold.
73 - Tom Hammond N0SS
At 03:25 AM 12/8/00, you wrote:
>Hello All
>I am setting up the contest computer in the shack for the 10 meter
>contest. I noticed that the date is wrong on the computer, it says Jan 4
>80! I have tried to change the date in the time date window and as long as
>that window is opened the date stays set. But when I close the window it
>reverts back to Jan 4 1980!!!
>I have done everything I can think of and I can't get it to stay set. I
>though I checked all the computers to make sure they were Y2K compatible.
>if that is the case then I can't understand it changing the month also.
>Any ideas out there?
>I guess I can run it like it is and change all the dates after the contest
>but that would be a real pain!!
>73
>Rick
>KC5AJX
>P.S. the contest computer is a compaq Pentium 100mhz 16 meg ram 1 gig hd
>running Windows 95
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