Hi Folks,
I'd like to make you aware of a new contribution to the CBT Tape,
on Files 930, 932, and 933 of the Updates page of www.cbttape.org. This
is a "CALENDAR FILE" from Phil Polchinski, which can solve just about
all of your "date differences" and "day-of-week" and day-of-month"
programming problems that you might have.
This calendar file has been donated to the CBT Tape and can be used
for free by anyone. It covers all dates from 1753 thru 2600, and you
can determine, FOR CERTAIN, all day-of-week, day-of-month, and
date-difference calculations with ease, and without doing any difficult
programming, by just using this file as a reference.
The calendar file is LRECL=35, and it can be used either in ASCII
or in EBCDIC. All characters in all fields of the file are printable.
Each date consists of one record in the file, and there is enough
information in each record, to solve a tremendous multitude of date
problems in your programming. Now, since this file is available to
everyone for free, and it's not "going away", I'm encouraging people to
use it in their own work, and to tell other people about it. This
"calendar file" makes many hard programming problems very easy, when
concerning dates.
Where is the file? Currently, until I cut another CBT Tape
version, you can find "the Calendar File" in various formats on the
UPDATES directory of the CBT Tape website, on Files 930 (XMIT-ted pds),
932 (EBCDIC, LRECL=35), and File 933 (ASCII text format, zipped).
Once you see what YOU CAN DO with this file, you are going to like
it. It just has to be available somewhere on your systems, where
programs will have access to it.
Thanks for listening. I hope this will help a lot of people.
Phil's email address is: [email protected] and he can
answer all your questions.
All the best of everything to all of you.
Sincerely, Sam
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