| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 416.1 | What's 1000 years between friends? | MLNOIS::HARBIG | | Fri Oct 02 1987 08:13 | 3 |
| Has anyone been given the HRR yet ?
(Hereditary Revision Responsability)
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| 416.2 | Tangent #1 | WELSWS::MANNION | Legendary Lancashire Heroes | Fri Oct 02 1987 08:52 | 5 |
| A friend of mine goes by the name of Vincenzo Stanley Fojut ( his
mother's Italian, his father is Polish), he says that if he ever
has a son he'll call him Tempus.
Phillip
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| 416.3 | t0 | IPG::GOODENOUGH | Jeff Goodenough, IPG Reading-UK | Fri Oct 02 1987 09:06 | 4 |
| Any calendar experts know why 17-Nov-1858 was chosen as VMS's
zero date?
Jeff.
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| 416.4 | Am I confused? | DSSDEV::STONE | Roy | Fri Oct 02 1987 10:57 | 8 |
| According to my reference (VAX-11 Run-Time Library Language Support
Reference Manual, Sect. 5.3.1) the DATE$ function:
"...returns the date corresponding to day number n, where n is the
day of the year (1 to 365 or 366) plus the number of years since
00-JAN-1970 * 1000."
How did you arrive at 17-NOV-1858?
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| 416.5 | Beginning of real records | MINAR::BISHOP | | Fri Oct 02 1987 11:56 | 1 |
| It's the date of the first astronomical photograph.
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| 416.6 | | MLNOIS::HARBIG | | Fri Oct 02 1987 12:12 | 1 |
| When I switch on Monday mornings I feel like it's my date of birth.
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| 416.7 | From the horse's mouth | LYMPH::LAMBERT | BMW: Best Motorcycle in the World | Fri Oct 02 1987 12:38 | 20 |
| re: < Note 416.4 by DSSDEV::STONE "Roy" >
> -< Am I confused? >-
Yes, I'm afraid you are. :-)
I don't have a copy of the manual you mention, but I believe the DATE$
function is based on the BASIC DATE$ function, which indeed uses
00-JAN-1970 as it's base date. (If I remember correctly, RSTS/E uses
that as it's base date, too.)
Most other date oriented functions in VMS use 17-NOV-1858 as the base
date. I quote from the VAX/VMS System Services Reference Manual (VMS V4.2),
VAX/VMS System Services Reference Manual, p. 9-2:
VAX/VMS maintains the current date and time in 64-bit format. The
time value is a binary number in 100-nanosecond units offset from
the system base date and time, which is 00:00 o'clock, 17-Nov-1858
(the Smithsonian base date and time for the astronomical calendar).
-- Sam
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| 416.8 | Pointers to other conferences | DELNI::CANTOR | Dave C. | Fri Oct 30 1987 00:12 | 8 |
| Re .3
See note 549 in the Hacker conference
942 Trivia
652 Askenet
2026 VMSnotes
Dave C.
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