On Fri, 4 Feb 2011 14:39:37 +0000, john gilmore wrote:

>Tom Marchant wrote:
> 
><begin snippet>
>BLSUXTOD is an IPCS exit service routine that seems to pass back
>mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss.ffffff
>
>Not something I'd want to do arithmetic with.
></end snippet>
>
>He is right on both counts.  This is the formatted character-string output 
>that BLSUXTOD produces, and it is wholly unsuitable  for arithmetic.
> 
>I have now reviewed this entire thread looking for clues as to how I and 
>others could have gone so wrong: We thought Micheal Butz was trying 
>to work with STCK values, and he was not.  

He didn't tell us that he was using BLSUXTOD until his fourth post.

-- 
Tom Marchant

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