Date Options for Reports

[David T.]

Okay. I have re-run diff as you requested. I do not see any options in Yahoo
mail to set the attachment as text; perhaps by adding '.txt' to the filename,
it will come through as you need it?

David

--- Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Try using "diff -u" please?  This patch is unusable as is.  Thanks.
> 
> Also, you can attach the patch as a text/x-patch instead
> of octet-stream.
> 
> -derek
> 
> "David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> > Yes. I just saw the other thread regarding guile-strings.c
> >
> > I notice now in the file that each line is preceded by a comment line:
> >
> > /* src/app-utils/date-utilities.scm */
> >
> > Assuming that this scheme file is the actual place I should patch, I attach
> a
> > patch for the date-utilities.scm file.
> >
> > David
> >
> > --- Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:
> >
> >> Quoting "David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>:
> >> 
> >> > I have been bothered by the inconsistency of the date options on
> reports. I
> >> > have noticed that GC uses "Start of this month", but "Start of current
> >> > quarter"; "Start of ...", but "Current Year Start" and "Previous Year 
> >> > Start". I
> >> > would like to see a standardized set of terms:
> >> >
> >> > Option                        Tooltip
> >> > Start of current {interval}   The start of the current {interval}
> >> > Start of previous {interval}  The start of the previous {interval}
> >> >
> >> > along with the same entries under the To: selectbox.
> >> >
> >> > I am not certain, but it looks like these strings are established in
> >> > guile-strings.c. If this is in fact, I attach the results of "diff
> >> > guile-strings.c guile-strings-mine.c" in the hopes that the changes can
> get
> >> > integrated into the main program.
> >> 
> >> Bzzt.  guile-strings.c is a magic file, generated solely for the purpose
> >> of translation of scheme strings.  You'll need to search through
> >> the .scm files to find the sources of these strings.
> >> 
> >> Also, it's POSSIBLE that changing these strings could result in
> >> breaking existing report options, but that would depend on how
> >> they are implemented.
> >> 
> >> Thanks,
> >> 
> >> > David
> >> 
> >> -derek
> >> 
> >> -- 
> >>        Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
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> >> 
> >> 
> >
> >
> >
> >      
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