As Deon pointed out in DOVE-Net / Synchronet Discussion, having a local time
zone configured with a different UTC offset than your system time zone can
produce strange/unexpected results (e.g. displayed age of messages). Since
it's possible that not all sysops will complete the configuration wizard or
actually set their timezone to the correct value (and ignore the startup
warning message), we now make the default Local Time Zone to be
"automatic" - query the OS every time the local time zone is needed/used.

This has the downside of only storing (e.g. in message headers) the UTC
offset of the current time zone (not the time zone abbreviation/name as
encoded by SMB). I considered making an option to dynamically figure out
the actual time zone (not just the UTC offset) and while I think that's
doable, Deon just wanted his UTC offset (e.g. UTC+11:00) and not his
time zone name (e.g. AEDT) stored in message headers, so this setting
would be the behavior he expected/wanted.

I'm using the sentinel time zone value of -1 for this new behavior.

Existing configurations (behavior of existing systems) aren't changed.

Based on qwk.ssjs

I tested this using:
wget --auth-no-challenge --post-file=file.ext --http-user=username --http-password=passwd vert.synchro.net/upload.ssjs?filename=file.ext\?desc=description-text

This currently requires an "uploads" directory to be configured by the sysop.

I'm not sure if there's a better/more-standard way for the posted filename or
content to be included in the request. This is just a sort of proof-of-concept
as a solution for issue #554. Perhaps an ecbwebv4 page displays a prompt to the
user for their filename and it redirects to this page. Not sure how that'll
work.

Tested with this:
wget --content-disposition --post-file=nodelist.010 http://synchro.net/fido-nodelist-syncterm.ssjs

msgs.ssjs line 6: TypeError: msgbase is undefined

Instead, just display an error to the user/browser (assuming there is one).

"msg.ssjs line 42: Error: Error -1 reading user number"

Fixed an errant semicolon in the process. (15 year old minor bug)

This excludes votes and polls automatically.

Double-check that the user has access to both the directory and the containing
library before allowing a download a file.

total credits.
Set an 'error' property on reply if file not found or not
enough credits.

The User.downloaded_file() method has been enhanced to accept a directory
code and a filename to do "all the things" expected after a file has been
successfully downloaded. Use the method.

Using Linux top, long-running (hundreds of hours) httpSess threads were seen
consuming ~15% of a CPU core. This loop calls time() and yield() in a tight
loop, so instead mswait(50) (milliseconds), which reduces the CPU utilization
considerable (down to < 1%), but will slightly impact the frequency with
which the events callbacks are invoked. A better scheme would be to block
while waiting for an event or a timeout (e.g. 1 second), so this is not a
great solution. More of a work-around.

We don't (yet) support UTF-8 sequences in telegrams (short messages to users).

Respect the local "allow dupe realnames" setting.
Slightly more careful checking of some things.
More to come.

newuser_level
newuser_flags1
newuser_flags2
newuser_flags3
newuser_flags4
newuser_exemptions
newuser_restrictions

Contents of components/header.xjs (if exists) appear under
navbar and above page content.
Contents of components/footer.xjs (if exists) appear
at bottom of page (in a <footer/> block).
You can use this to add a banner/image to the top of your
pages, or include some server or client-side JS that runs on
every page load (without having to modify index.xjs).

Use get/post as appropriate.
Light housekeeping; hopefully this script won't live much longer.

Feed post and get requests into a common function, which will
become useful later.
Starting to use ES6 stuff in client-side scripts with greater
abandon.  May not work with your ancient browser. #wontfix

Get angry if someone's alias or realname doesn't pass system.check_name(). Stop people named Phil from doing the sorts of things that Phils do.

(libs to be updated (again) for require()ability).
Where require() not possible/applicable, use var instead of const
at the top level.

they solve the unexpected redeclaration errors, other unexpected
scope problems persist.

Execute most any top-level SSJS in an IIFE to work around whatever
context reuse thing is happening.
I'm aboot done with this shit for now I tell you what.