[arm-allstar] Fwd: ARRL news Problem

[W0KGW]

Just a clarification, this is for the /etc/asterisk/playnews.ini file.

Cheers,
Joel
W0KGW

> On Aug 7, 2017, at 5:35 PM, Doug Crompton via arm-allstar <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
> 
> ​Below is a mail conversation with the ARRL regarding the fact that the
> playnews script is no longer working for ARRL news. It had been working up
> until now. They apparently have made the month's preceding 0 digit for less
> than 10 go away. This makes it incompatible with any simple built-in Linux
> date formatting. This obviously can be fixed but before I do permanently I
> need to find out if this is just a temporary problem or it will continue
> this way. It makes me mad when they cannot stick to a standard way of doing
> things! ​I am also in contact with blubrry technical support.
> 
> If and until this is resolved here is a fix you can add to the current
> playnews to resolve the ARRL news problem -
> 
> # Set to ARRL URL
> #Temporary fix - Maybe!
> Year=`date --date="last friday" +%Y`
> Month=`date --date="last friday" +%m`
> Month=`echo $Month | sed 's/^0*//'`
> 
> Day=`date --date="last friday" +%d`
> 
> # comment out old way
> #ARRL_URL="http://content.blubrry.com/arrlaudionews/AAN-$(date --date="last
> friday" +%Y-%m-%d).mp3"
> 
> ARRL_URL="http://content.blubrry.com/arrlaudionews/AAN-$Year-$Month-$Day.mp3
> "
> 
> 
> Doug:
> 
> 
> 
> In your URL you added a zero before the 8 in the file date. It should be:
> http://content.blubrry.com/arrlaudionews/AAN-2017-8-04.mp3
> 
> 
> 
> 73 . . . Steve Ford, WB8IMY
> 
> QST Editor