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Gary_M_Mugford · 07-11-2010, 08:03 PM

Gee, sorry to have caused all this ruckus. Back in the murky fog of ancient times, Delphi's masters made a beachhead in a Linux version but I never went anywhere near it (Kylix). Still have the disks somewhere.

Might I suggest an alternative to get around Kovid's potential dislike for fiddling with the date, for fear of rupturing those with existing setups. What about a ModernDate type that defaults to the now 1/1/1980 (or something like 1/1/2000 or TODAY's date). Just an idea.

As for editing, as I said, I found double-clicking on 101, changing it to 2010 and then double clicking on 01 and changing it appropriately, followed by an appopriate month is fairly routine. I've been doing book reviews all this month on the blog and I wait until I have done a bunch and then update calibre.

This is far from arduous.

Thanks for verifying I wasn't nuts. GM

07-11-2010, 08:03 PM	#12
Gary_M_Mugford Groupie Posts: 180 Karma: 299 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Brampton ON Device: Kobo, Kindle3	Gee, sorry to have caused all this ruckus. Back in the murky fog of ancient times, Delphi's masters made a beachhead in a Linux version but I never went anywhere near it (Kylix). Still have the disks somewhere. Might I suggest an alternative to get around Kovid's potential dislike for fiddling with the date, for fear of rupturing those with existing setups. What about a ModernDate type that defaults to the now 1/1/1980 (or something like 1/1/2000 or TODAY's date). Just an idea. As for editing, as I said, I found double-clicking on 101, changing it to 2010 and then double clicking on 01 and changing it appropriately, followed by an appopriate month is fairly routine. I've been doing book reviews all this month on the blog and I wait until I have done a bunch and then update calibre. This is far from arduous. Thanks for verifying I wasn't nuts. GM