Parachute Repack Calculator

Or if you're at the command line of a Linux, Unix, Mac OS-X machine:

$ date
Fri Jun 24 22:07:18 PDT 2011
$ date -v+180d
Wed Dec 21 22:07:24 PST 2011

;-)

On Jun 24, 10:09*pm, 5Z wrote:
Or if you're at the command line of a Linux, Unix, Mac OS-X machine:

$ date
Fri Jun 24 22:07:18 PDT 2011
$ date -v+180d
Wed Dec 21 22:07:24 PST 2011

;-)

or

?date()+180

Who knows what prompt that would be entered at?

Andy

You can also use a spread sheet. For example in Microsoft Excel;
insert the date in cell A1, insert 180 in cell A2, enter the formula
"+A1+A2" in cell A3. Dates are stored as numbers. You can do
calculations on them. This even works on many cell phones. After you
have the repack date, you can create a reminder using your Email's
calendar feature. For example, if using Windows Mail, open Windows
Calendar, move to the appropriate date, double click on a time to
create a new appointment, change the details to "Repack chute" or
something similar, and set the reminder to one or two weeks. You'll
get an alert one to two weeks before the repack is due.

Charlie

On 6/25/2011 6:08 AM, Andy wrote:
On Jun 24, 10:09 pm, wrote:
Or if you're at the command line of a Linux, Unix, Mac OS-X machine:

$ date
Fri Jun 24 22:07:18 PDT 2011
$ date -v+180d
Wed Dec 21 22:07:24 PST 2011

;-)

or

?date()+180

Who knows what prompt that would be entered at?

Andy

If it's your personal 'chute and your season is less than 6 months long,
get it repacked the week before you start flying. That would work for a
lot of people.

--
Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA (change ".netto" to ".us" to
email me)

On Jun 25, 2:32*pm, Eric Greenwell wrote:
On 6/25/2011 6:08 AM, Andy wrote:









On Jun 24, 10:09 pm, *wrote:
Or if you're at the command line of a Linux, Unix, Mac OS-X machine:

$ date
Fri Jun 24 22:07:18 PDT 2011
$ date -v+180d
Wed Dec 21 22:07:24 PST 2011

;-)

or

?date()+180

Who knows what prompt that would be entered at?

Andy

If it's your personal 'chute and your season is less than 6 months long,
get it repacked the week before you start flying. That would work for a
lot of people.

--
Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA (change ".netto" to ".us" to
email me)

Sorry wrong answer, or at least not the answer to that question.

The answer was dBASE.
..
.. ?date()
06/26/11
.. ?date()+180
12/23/11
..


Andy

On Jun 25, 5:32*pm, Eric Greenwell wrote:
On 6/25/2011 6:08 AM, Andy wrote:



On Jun 24, 10:09 pm, *wrote:
Or if you're at the command line of a Linux, Unix, Mac OS-X machine:

$ date
Fri Jun 24 22:07:18 PDT 2011
$ date -v+180d
Wed Dec 21 22:07:24 PST 2011

;-)

or

?date()+180

Who knows what prompt that would be entered at?

Andy

If it's your personal 'chute and your season is less than 6 months long,
get it repacked the week before you start flying. That would work for a
lot of people.

--
Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA (change ".netto" to ".us" to
email me)

I received a small whiz wheel from www.paragear.com with an order I
placed from them. If you go to there web site and call them they may
have them for sale. Normally you need to buy $20.00 of merchandise
from them before they ship. But it might be worth the try. Any rigger
that does not put your repack date with your chute is not doing there
job correctly.
For the record I am studying to be a rigger

Michael