In the ALMANAC intrinsic, I am supposed to supply a date as a 16 bit
unsigned integer by value.  The date format, per HP's help files, is 7:9
Day of Year, and 0:7 Year of Century.  It looks like year of century
means the 2 digit year without the century.

Perhaps I am missing the point, but how am I supposed to fit 5 bytes
into a 16 bit field for COBOLII?

Any help on how I should use this intrinsic, or just some help on
defining and using the date part, would be greatly appreciated.  For
some reason the HP help files have no examples, just syntax for the
actual statement.

Thanks.
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