World: r3wp

so does Rebol always reference the system/locale when printing a 
DATE! but only store the inteeger values?  or does it store the date 
in julian format & do more complex stuff to output even things like 
date/year

graham: the first one was from R3, the second one from R2

oh !

so "flying from R3 to R2"

In both cases .. your clock, or mine, is out by 2 mins

mhinson, MOLD and FORM never reference system/locale - REBOL syntax 
is English-based.

my clock is out

Not sure we know the actual internal format.....You could run some 
timing tests to get an idea.
Another useful R2 mezzanine that may help. Mike:
   to-idate now
(to-idate not yet in R3)

is it known, that R3 does not take into account the DST?

It does not notice the change, but does take into account the dst 
at start time.

...but it shows just +1:00 as my timezone

graham:
>> d: now
== 5-Jul-2009/0:54:14+2:00

When last i checked at least. AFAIK it uses the system timezone. 
Does your system take dst into account?

R2 is able to get it

R3 doesn't notice DST here (checked just now).

Funny it does here.

... just teasing ... Malaysia and Singapore have had  daylight savings 
al the year round since sometime in the last century.

al -> all

Equatorial countries?

Just think of what they do in Antarctica ...

All antarctic bases except the Chilean ones use zone -3:00, the Chilean 
ones -4:00 to match Chile.

No DST in Antarctica.

A couple stations use +12:00.

NZ at Scott Base ?

uses + 12:00

McMurdo and Amundsen-Scott use +12.

Queen Maud Land uses +2

what a complete mess ...

So, its just as confusing as for the rest of us, but at a smaller 
scale.

I wonder how far outside the perimeter of their bases does their 
time zones extend

Queen Maud Land uses +4

I think your statement about "all Antarctic bases ... " is a tad 
off!

They don't define time zones in Antarctica, afaik - they just define 
the bases' operating time, not the local time in the area. But as 
you say, afaik is not very far.

so out side the base, one is essentially in Rod Serling's  home ....

Yup :)

[Tumble weed]

Hi folks! Quick newbie question about rebgui:

I want to capture on-key events while a table widget has focus. I 
tried using " on-click [system/view/focal-face: face system/view/caret: 
face/text]
 on-key [print event/key]
" as the user-guide suggests 
for non-editable widgets, but all I got was a crash. Any suggestions?

I'm no rebgui user, but I can tell you there is a rebgui group here. 
  maybe you can find your answer there  :-)  the best way to search 
for stuff is to use the altme web archive on rebol.org, cause it 
includes even the old posts.  Altme limits back log to make the GUI 
more responsive.


the rebgui Atlme archive on rebol.org:  http://www.rebol.org/aga-display-posts.r?post=r3wp303x1

is there a way to move a file from one path to another without copying? 
or should I use call "mv ... ? thank you!

I haven't come across such a file move function. I guess, you need 
to call the operating system.

You could use write/read then delete

RENAME

if that fails (different filesystems), you need the usual copy + 
delete. (MV does the same.)

I'm puzzled, I could miss that. :-) Thanks, Gabriele!

It's right there in the dictionary, under "Port, File, and IO Functions":
http://www.rebol.com/docs/dictionary.html

Ah, can't be used for what Will is after.!

This function cannot be used to move a file from one directory to 
another. 

Just checked, it correctly moved a text file from one directory to 
another on Ubuntu

from the rename help:
ARGUMENTS:
     old -- path to the old file (Type: file url)
     new -- new name (not a path) (Type: file url string)


but it indeed works if you use a destination path relative to the 
origin path, in my case 0.002 seconds instead of 0.300 using call 
"mv..   thanks all 8-)

why does call have a pretty fixed 300 ms delay? Is it a coincidense 
on my machine or is it enforced somewhere?
timer [call/wait ""]
;   0:00:00.301991