[376] in Tooltime
Re: more comments on latest scopus offering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Wade Neiterman)
Fri Jan 24 17:24:58 1997
In-Reply-To: <9701242218.AA12449@helpdesk3.MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 17:28:23 +0100
To: Rob Smyser <smyser@MIT.EDU>, tooltime@MIT.EDU
From: Steven Wade Neiterman <wade@MIT.EDU>
Thanks for testing.
Maybe the developer folks can comment on the first item. My testing has
been on Solaris and SGI, and those platforms seem to be ok - interms of
width.
Regarding item b., we made a few changes before we settled on the
YYYY/MM/DD format. I agree, it seems to do work nicely.
..Steve
At 5:18 PM -0500 1/24/97, Rob Smyser wrote:
>- results set date field "Created On"...
>
> a.) the field comes out five miles wide compared with its contents.
> If the field is specified in characters, we can be pretty sure it's
> only 20 characters wide.
>
> b.) at our meeting steve said that sorting in the field made no sense.
> The field seems to be YYYY/MM/DD HH:MM:SS, which presents no problem
> with sorting that I can tell. It groups first by year, then month,
> then day.... Just what one would expect. I don't see a problem.
>
> c.) setting date formats in File / Preferences... has no effect on this
> field.
>
>If we can narrow the default field width to a reasonable value, then we
>can go with it as it now works.
>
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> Rob Smyser Computing Help Desk, MIT Information Systems, 11-226
> smyser@mit.edu (617) 253 1358
