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- Message-ID: <VM-UTIL%92073110140068@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU>
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.vm-util
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 10:05:42 EDT
- Sender: VM Utilities Discussion List <VM-UTIL@OHSTVMA.BITNET>
- Comments: In-Reply-To: Posting to VM-UTIL of Thu,
- 30 Jul 1992 22:25:08 -0400
- From: "John A. Pershing Jr." <PERSHNG@YKTVMH.BITNET>
- Subject: Changing 15 minutes for VM READ
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- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 22:25:08 -0400
- From: Anthony Ng <CCENGNM@NUSVM.BITNET>
- I notice that X'0359' does not round up to exactly 15 minutes. Does
- anyone know why?
-
- It is probably due to round-off error (or a simple miscalculation) on
- the part of the person who originally wrote the code. The "correct"
- value should be X'035A' (a tad low) or X'035B' (a tad high).
-
- Note that this value represents the high-order word of the Time-Of-Day
- clock, which counts "Mega microseconds" (e.g., 2**20 microseconds)
- which are 1.048576 seconds in duration.
-
- -jp
-