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From: WARNOCK@PRISM.CLEMSON.EDU (Todd Warnock)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: request for HELP with dates and programs (Fortran)
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Date: Mon, 19-Oct-87 12:17:00 EDT
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I'm writing a fortran program that, among other things, accepts a date
as part of the command line.  (ie:  STUFF/DATE=12-dec-1987:12:00:00.00)
Getting the date and doing stuff with it is not a problem, however, it
would be nice if the /DATE qualifier would understand "TODAY+12" or "YESTERDAY"
"TOMORROW+12-", etc...  What performs these conversions for DCL commands ?
(I understand everything must eventually end up as a quadword for $BINTIM
and $ASCTIM...)  Are there routines (maybe that someone has written) to do
this ?

Thanks !

Todd Warnock
VAX Systems
Clemson University
Clemson, South Carolina 29634-2803

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