Re: Need a small VMS test
[email protected] ("Hein, Nashua NH")
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On Sep 30, 1:24 am, [email protected] (John E. Malmberg) wrote: > Michael G Schwern wrote: > > Hi, I need a quick VMS test for the new code to detect the range of time_t. > VMS keeps time internally as a 64 bit signed integer all platforms, > usually in local time. The base time is November 17, 1958. Close. They are 100 ns granularity cluncks with a signed 64 bit counter since the Smithsonian base date 00:00 17-Nov-1858. So it will happily represent the date of birth for a centenarian, as well as the end date for a new 99 year lease. The build-in ascii formatting is restricted to the year 9999 and typically includes centi-seconds. The negative times are considered 'delta times', which are formate to DDDD HH:MM:SS.CC fwiw, Hein.