In response to Wirt Atmar's observation that one(1) VAR would be
adaquate
to represent the concept of TIME (CCYYMMDDHHMMSSMMM) I totally
agree and would further sugest that to pay this concept its'
appropriate respect
I suggest that the VAR be named HPCHRONOS in deference to one of the
very first intrinsics written for the HP3000.

  From Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary:

      chron- or chrono- comb form [Gk, fr. chronos]: time
<chronogram>


                                          Eric Sand
                                          Data Research Associates
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>From:  Wirt Atmar[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent:  Friday, November 22, 1996 10:53 AM
>To:    [log in to unmask]
>Subject:       Re: [HP3000-L] Proposal for new HPCENTURY CI variable
>
>Jeff Kell writes:
>
>>But on the "micro-management" issue... I'd much prefer ONE variable
>with
>>all clock information you could substring from as opposed to the
>growing
>>number of possible individual date/time/etc variables.
>
>That would be my strong vote, too. The string would contain
>CCYYMMDDHHMMSSMMM (where the last three MMM's are milliseconds).
However
>I would be prone to name it something other than HPYYMMDDHHMMSSMMM.
>Perhaps just HPTIME.
>
>Wirt Atmar
>