August 2021 - Roundtable

How does on get the date function to work in Libre Office spreadsheet?
by eh＠eduardhiebert.com 08 May '23

08 May '23

Hi, I've formatted the cells as date mm/dd/yy and entered the values as is. Also tried by preceeding with equal sign in case deemed to be a formula but neither works. I assume a difference between two days yields the difference in days, correct? Or are the formula different than plain math? Eduard the Osborne guy at last meeting

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CIRA Board nomination
by Bill Reid 26 Aug '21

26 Aug '21

Hernan Popper would like to get nominated to participate in the CIRA Board elections. He needs 20 CIRA members to approve of him seeking the nomination. I know Hernan from when we had an active VoIP Muug Interest Group. If you are a CIRA member you should be getting an email with the credentials to support his nomination(probably tomorrow). I was a CIRA Director for 4 years and certainly support him becoming a Director. He has the skill and experience. If you own a .ca domain name and are not a member I encourage you to become one. There are no fees. -- Bill

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Climate change is messing with GPS time-keeping!
by Gilbert E. Detillieux 06 Aug '21

06 Aug '21

For those of you who took in Wyatt's May presentation on setting up a GPS-based NTP server,... https://muug.ca/meetings/20-21.html#may ... you may be interested in this bit of weirdness... https://twitter.com/ariadneconill/status/1422163289518313474?s=21 TIL: Climate change has resulted in the earth spinning faster, cancelling out leap seconds. “As I previously said, the reason it will affect live GPS is due to, and I hate to say it, global warming causing the earth to speed up, unexpectedly.” So, now you know!... :) Gilbert -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)cs.umanitoba.ca> Dept. of Computer Science Web: http://cs.umanitoba.ca/~gedetil/ University of Manitoba Winnipeg MB CANADA R3T 2N2

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