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Subject: Re: this probably doesn't help but...

Author: James Swafford

Date: 20:36:09 09/04/99

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Thanks Pete.  The information you provided is from
http://www.clark.net/pub/pribut/standard.txt, which
is the PGN standards.

I don't think making up new tags is the proper way
to do it.  (It *is* a standard, after all).  I must
be missing something.  I'll have to reread the
document...

--
James


On September 04, 1999 at 23:32:16, Pete Galati wrote:

>On September 04, 1999 at 23:17:18, James Swafford wrote:
>
>>
>>I'm implementing a "load PGN" feature in my GUI...
>>Are there tags indicating how much time each player
>>has left?
>>
>>If so, the ICC headers don't contain them...
>>Not such a big deal if continuing the game on ICC,
>>since ICC will send the time left for each side
>>prior to the game resuming, but if this game
>>were local, and needed to be resumed by a program
>>locally, it would need more information.
>>
>>Does anybody know where I can find information
>>about *all* PGN tags?
>>
>>--
>>James
>
>I have this pgn.txt file that I've had for a long time and don't know where I
>got it, but this is it's tags section about time, I'm only guessing that you've
>allready seen this. But I think that if you do develope a new tag that everyone
>else's program will just ignore it and not cause trouble about your unusual
>tags.
>
>Pete
>
>9.5: Time and date related information
>
>The following tags assist with further refinement of the time and data
>information associated with a game.
>
>
>9.5.1: Tag: Time
>
>This uses a time-of-day value in the form "HH:MM:SS"; similar to the Date tag
>except that it denotes the local clock time (hours, minutes, and seconds) of
>the start of the game.  Note that colons, not periods, are used for field
>separators for the Time tag value.  The value is taken from the local time
>corresponding to the location given in the Site tag pair.
>
>
>9.5.2: Tag: UTCTime
>
>This tag is similar to the Time tag except that the time is given according to
>the Universal Coordinated Time standard.



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