[arm-allstar] Fwd: ARRL news Problem

[Chris Perrine(KB2FAF)]

I could never figure out why they just don't put a file on a server 
someplace called arn.mp3 and update it every week.

This Week In Amateur Radio and the Rain report do that.  Makes things so 
much easier.


Chris

KB2FAF




On 08/07/2017 09:18 PM, "Doug Crompton via arm-allstar" wrote:
> The problem is NOT doing it one way or the other. The problem is
> standardization. Apparently there was a personnel change at ARRL this week
> and whomever is in charge of naming the file changed the format. We need to
> determine what the ongoing format is. I have a dialog with Steve Ford and
> we will hopefully get it cleared up.
>
>
> *73 Doug*
>
> *WA3DSP*
>
> *http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 7:16 PM, "Tony Ross via arm-allstar" <
> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
>
>> On 08/07/2017 03:35 PM, "Doug Crompton via arm-allstar" 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. ...
>>>
>> The man page for date states:
>> ...
>> By default, date pads numeric fields with zeroes.  The following optional
>> flags may follow '%':
>> -      (hyphen) do not pad the field
>> ...
>>
>> It suggests use of the optional "-" flag as a solution, which works
>> correctly:
>>
>> # echo http://content.blubrry.com/arrlaudionews/AAN-$(date --date="last
>> friday" +%Y-%-m-%d).mp3
>> http://content.blubrry.com/arrlaudionews/AAN-2017-8-04.mp3
>>
>>
>>
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