[WriteLog] ANARTS Time

[Ian White, G3SEK]

Jerry Flanders wrote:
>At 22:24 6/6/04, Joe Young wrote:
>>In setting up WriteLog V10.46G, February 2004 for the ANARTS contest, 
>>I have run across a problem.
>>
>>Using the F-keys, %T produces the time of day as it should, but it is 
>>not refreshed with each use.
>>The first time the %T is called it prints the correct time. All 
>>subsequent %T calls print the same time
>>that was printed with the first call to %T (no time update).
>>
>>Thanks for reading. 73 de Joe, W6RLL
>Make sure you "log" that QSO that the time applied to before testing it 
>again. Unless you log it, WL may be assuming you are simply trying to 
>re-send the time, and is therefore repeating the original time sent 
>with the QSO.
>
>I don't recall for sure it works this way, but it should.

%T is not a clock; it is part of the sent message, so it does *not* 
change until you start a new QSO.

The message time and the logging time don't have to be the same - the 
message time is at the start of the QSO, but the logging time is at the 
end.

Don't worry about it.


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73 from Ian G3SEK