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 > -- Rap music is performed by those that can not sing so others can not think. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
