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[Jerry Feldman]

Looks like your problems was fixed. By downloading the JRE, you
corrected the problem since your email is Java based.

 On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:27:58 -0400
"dan moylan" <jdm at moylan.info> wrote:

> 
> jerry feldman writes:
> > I'm attaching the java code. Run it, and see if it shows
> > the right time et. al. You don't need the java compiler.
> 
> tried that:
> 
>   alioth:moylan:~/msg/2007 [1030] java Test
>   Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassFormatError:
>   Test (unrecognized class file version)
> 
> eugene gorlick writes:
> > It seems like you have only JRE - Java Runtime
> > Environment, where you can run compiled java programs,
> > but can't compile a new ones.
> 
> > You need to dowload JDK from Sun ( it includes javac  )to
> > be able to compile programs :
> > http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp
> > You can download JDK 6u1 self-extracted archive (.bin) .
> > Ones files will be extracted , you'll find javac in bin
> > directory.
> 
> did that (all 59MB of it).
> 
>   alioth:moylan:~/msg/2007 [1000] java Test
>   Wed Apr 11 15:29:14 EDT 2007
>  
>   alioth:moylan:~/msg/2007 [1001] date
>   070411:1530:00 EDT (Wednesday)
> 
> nothin' funny there.  after looking at man date, tried adding
> %z to the date format and got:
> 
>   alioth:moylan:~/msg/2007 [1002] date
>   070411:1530:40 EDT (Wednesday) -0400
> 
> ok, so what's the problem.  i've been using MIME::Lite to
> send out messages, that's what.  looked in there and
> modified the code to make the offset = `date "%z`.  now
> the headers look reasonable.  who would have guessed?
> 
> sorry to be such a nuisance, but thanks for the inputs.
> dan
> 
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