On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 8:21 AM Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yeah, and further, they are called "Julian" dates in the Z community and
> that is a misnomer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_day
>
> I like one thing about them: they are compact. 18158 is the most compact
> (generally acceptable) way to represent June 7, 2018.
>
> Here are conversion tables if you are interested:
> https://www.fs.fed.us/fire/partners/fepp/DODprogram/juliandate.htm
>

​Thanks for that URL. I have a short REXX program which will do it for me
using the DATE() builtin. What my user (really only one left now) would
really like would be something similar to: MM/DD/YYYY.JJJ MON  ... She is
our single remaining production scheduler and sometimes peruses the SYSLOG
when researching jobs. Having all that information right there would really
help her.



>
> Charles
>

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