On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Janet Graff <[email protected]> wrote: > As these things go, I have found new uses for my little routine. It's strong > enough to find the elapsed time for larger numbers than I intended. So much > so, I thought I'd add a function to show the elapsed time since the beginning > of my started task. The time is working wonderfully but when I cross the > more than a day boundary I'd like to display the number of days since the > start of the program. > > I wound up using the > > STCK-STCK difference in times since the start of the started task > + 1972/01/01 add in base STCK time to get a STCK value again > STCKCONV convert that to DATE=YYYYMMDD TIME=DEC > ED make it character based > > sequence so I have > > 1972/01/03 23:15:06.238744 > > What I'd like is > > 2 days 23:15:06.238744 > > I can calculate the date difference by hand (in C based off of the character > representation of the date) of course. Unless someone knows of a nifty > method to get the elapsed number of days from the data that I have? > > Janet > > 1972/01/03 - 1972/01/01 = 0000/00/02
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