Ron,

The time and date are in the CLOCK and CALENDAR formats. You can pass
these values to the FMTCALENDAR/FMTCLOCK/FMTDATE intrinsics and extract
the parts you want. Or using the layout shown in the intrinsic manual,
construct your own formatting routines.

John Zoltak
North American Mfg Co
Cleveland Ohio

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> Subject: [HP3000-L] Writelog and date time format
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>
> I am trying to extract DBMemo records out of image log files to a file
> and use them for some reporting. Bradmark's DBAudit can report it but
> cannot extract it to a file and as such I am trying to do it directly
> from the log files. I can get the records okay but cannot
> interpret the
> date and time correctly. These details are apparently written
> using the
> "WRITELOG" intrinsic but I do not know in what form the date and time
> are in. I assume I will need to convert them but from what?
>
> The documentation says "WRITELOG" is of format
> WRITELOG
>
>    HALFWORD(0)   -   RECORD NUMBER (1 WORD)
>
>    HALFWORD(2)   -   CHECKSUM
>
>    HALFWORD(3)   -   SUBSYSTEM IDENTIFIER (lST BYTE)
>
>    HALFWORD(3)   -   LOG RECORD CODE (2ND BYTE - 2)
>
>    HALFWORD(4)   -   TIME
>
>    HALFWORD(6)   -   DATE
>
>    HALFWORD(7)   -   LOG NUMBER
>
>    HALFWORD(8)   -   USER BUFFER LENGTH
>
>    HALFWORD(9)   -   USER BUFFER AREA
>
>
> Defining the time as an double integer (in COBOL speak S9(9) comp)
> gives me a value of 235341321. DB Audit reports the time as 14:07. The
> date when defined as an integer (S9(4) comp) gives me 14710-, the
> reports say 17th May 99.
>
> Can anyone shed some light.
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Ron McFarlane
> Project Manager
> Mercantile Mutual
>
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