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Re: CALENDAR Date Format
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Jeff Vance <[log in to unmask]>
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Jeff Vance <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 12 Feb 1999 12:10:20 -0800
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On Feb 12,  2:33pm, Jim Phillips wrote:
My intrinsics manual says that the CALENDAR date format is:
>
> Bits 7:9 = Day of year
> Bits 0:7 = Year of century
>
> But I think I read (here?) that this has been changed to:
>
> Bits 7:9 = Day of year
> Bits 0:7 = Years since 1900
>
> Is this correct?  And if so, what version of MPE/iX was this
> implemented?

Both are correct while we are still in century 19. Next year
the year field in CALENDAR will contain 100, so the later definition is
more general.

Jeff

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