fmtdate
A Trivial Macro for Macro5 and EPOC

• What it Does
• What You Need
• What You Do
• Other Information

What it Does

I am incredibly lazy. I found that I hated typing dates such as 09/05/1999 because of the awkwardness of typing the slash on the Psion keyboard. With fmtdate, I just type "0905" and invoke the macro, and it expands it to the full date. Sophisticated heuristics have been added to accomodate non-U.S. dates of the form dd/mm/yyyy.

Warning! fmtdate is not Year 2000 Compliant. risley.net's team of postdoctorate computer scientists are currently working overtime to insure that a Y2K ready version of fmtdate is available by year's end.

What You Need

• An EPOC device.
• Macro5 by Pascal Nicolas.
• The fmtdate package. It contains this documentation, the source (fmtdate.opl) and object (fmtdate.opo) files.
• Stuffit Expander to expand the package.

What You Do

• Place fmtdate.opo in your macros directory.
• Assign a hotkey to it using Macro5.

Other Information

If you have comments, problems, or suggestions, please feel free to email me. I'll answer as soon as I can.

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Date created: August 29, 1999
Last modified: September 5, 1999
Copyright © 1999 Ron Risley