TodayDir() function

[Julian Field]

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Very good idea. I might do this over the weekend, but it certainly
should be in the next release.

Chuck Foster wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Sorry if this is a general discussion point, I hadn't spotted it in the
>archives as yet.
>
>There's a few places where TodayDir() gets called (and a couple where the
>date is still calculated manually); the function uses the current time on
>the server to generate the date string used, but this would mean that
>there's going to be the odd time (sorry!) when it will flick from 23:59:59
>to 00:00:00 whilst a message is being processed, so yielding two potential
>dates for where a file might be quarantined/archived.
>
>I think.
>
>Would it be more beneficial to record a message's "date" within the object
>itself, so that the same one could be used anywhere in the code relating to
>that message without having to re-calculate it and potentially get a
>different result? The reason this came up for me in the first place is that
>I do some housekeeping in a custom function, one of which was to work out
>where a quarantined message would be ... if the function is called on a
>different day then ... oops! Having a $m->{date} type variable would be
>quite invaluable!
>
>C:>
>
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