On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 11:38:02 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: >If you do it in REXX, as already mentioned, the DATE builtin function can >convert >between most formats (not all). It's has that ability since OS/390 2.4. If >you >don't like that you can use the RDATE or RDATEF (called as a function) >from my web site or CBT file 434. > >It has it's own "base date" based on 1/1/1900 that I use in programs >for subtracting or adding days. > >http://www.mzelden.com/mvsfiles/rdate.txt > A more interesting (but perhaps less useful) problem is to find the date and time 12 hours ago. It could still be done in Rexx -- convert everything to seconds; add the offset in seconds; convert back with congruence arithmetic. It's a delightful feature of Rexx that its congruence operators don't demand integer operands.
Ah, if only Rexx were timezone savvy. What's one month before March 31? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
