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- From: Joe R Wyatt <jwyatt@txdirect.net>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx
- Subject: Re: Date arithmetic missing in REXX
- Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 03:20:39 GMT
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- >
- > Today I was revising a program at work (OS2 REXX) and to my
- > surprise I could not find a way to do date arithmetic. I found
- > the date("base") which returs a julian date, but I could not
- > find anything that takes that format back into any other format.
- >
- >
- > Did I mean something? I would think that date arithmetic should
- > be something that one would want as part of the standard REXX.
- >
-
- I see that there have been some good, and, uh, not so good, replies
- to your note, but I'll go ahead and throw my in two cents worth. The
- current EDM/2 (Electronic Developer's Magazine for OS/2) has a Rexx
- column on date manipulation. There is code provided that will work
- on multiple platforms along with an OS/2 specific DLL.
-
- I tried to stay really close to the nature of Rexx when it was
- written so that it would be easy to use. It can be found from
- http://www.iqpac.com
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- joe r wyatt
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