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No, your understanding is wrong. There's no "seconds" argument to the date() function, and no ways to make date() return a value in seconds.

See the description here: https://wiki.amigaos.net/wiki/AmigaOS_Manual:_ARexx_Functions#DATE()

Edit: PS. You can probably get what you're after with date(i ...

I've asked on the beta mailing list, hopefully someone knows more.

Best regards,

Niels

If you are able to investigate that at some point, it could be really useful to know which particular service duplication creates the problem. As I said, I can't reproduce the problem here (I also tried on my Sam460LE in addition to my main X1000), even with the file with some duplicates, but of ...

Actually, as I just found out, Update 3 installs (among other things) a services file in SYS:Storage/Devs/Internet/ which seems (after a quick look, not a real test) to have those duplicates fixed. Its filedate is 13-May-2025.

@MazinKaesar, if you had not made any changes yourself to your services ...

To answer your last question first - I wasn't guessing/hoping, I knew - at least I had heard fellow testers and users having success with that procedure. Personally, I already had the partitions I tested on set up with Update 2 as well as AmiUpdate 2.58, and had backups of them so I could test just ...

No, it wasn't.

Maybe it's my explanation, but I'll try again.

You wrote:

Installed Vanilla... Installed update 1,2,hotfix 2
Then AmiUpdate 2.58 (along with the required lib update to allow 2.58 to install).

I wrote:

if you install the working version 2.58 of AmiUpdate before trying to use it ...

Yeah, sorry, disregard the bit about Update 3 (it's just that a lot of my mind has been focused on Update 3 lately). But the point I wanted to make was that if you install the working version 2.58 of AmiUpdate before trying to use it to install anything else, things should go much smoother.

Best ...

If you had installed AmiUpdate first, before installing Update 3, the problem wouldn't have occurred.

Best regards,

Niels

Please read my reply in your other thread.

Best regards,

Niels

It should also never rain when I want the sun to shine.

But sh*t happens.

Please remember you're not dealing with a multi-trillion dollar company (such as Apple e.g.), but with small, partly volunteer-driven outfits (yes, outfits in plural).

And it's not Update 3 itself which solved the issue ...