On Fri, 4 Feb 2011 14:39:37 +0000, john gilmore wrote: >Tom Marchant wrote: > ><begin snippet> >BLSUXTOD is an IPCS exit service routine that seems to pass back >mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss.ffffff > >Not something I'd want to do arithmetic with. ></end snippet> > >He is right on both counts. This is the formatted character-string output >that BLSUXTOD produces, and it is wholly unsuitable for arithmetic. > >I have now reviewed this entire thread looking for clues as to how I and >others could have gone so wrong: We thought Micheal Butz was trying >to work with STCK values, and he was not.
He didn't tell us that he was using BLSUXTOD until his fourth post. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
