On 01 Jan 2025, Warpslide said the following...

 Wa> Silly me...  the binkd log doesn't include the year, e.g:
 Wa> + 31 Dec 23:18:10 [...]

 Wa> So I inject one with "date +%Y" which works great until we hit a new
 Wa> year...

There, so now instead of just blindly inserting "date +%Y" we now have:

if [ "${getpoll:5:3}" == "Dec" ] && [ "$(date +%b)" == "Jan" ]; then
  polltime="${getpoll:2:6} $(($(date +%Y) - 1)) ${getpoll:9:8}"
else
  polltime="${getpoll:2:6} $(date +%Y) ${getpoll:9:8}"
fi


Jay

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