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Subject:
FLABELINFO item 6 problem.
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Peter Smithson <[log in to unmask]>
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Peter Smithson <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 18 Oct 2004 12:03:58 -0500
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 Hi,

I must be doing something really stupid.


The documentation for item 6 (file creation date) is that it uses the
CALENDAR intrinsic format which says -

Bits   Value/Meaning
7:9   Day of year
0:7   Year since 1900

I get a bit confused with this notation.  Is that saying that the low 9
bits are the year and the high 7 is the year?

So today is year 104, day 292.  So the value I'd expect is

292 + 104 * (2^9) which is 53540.

Or if the year is 04 then it'd be 2340.

When I run a test program on MPE I get 1996 which is day 460 year 03.

I've tried out a few other combinations but I can't get it right.  What
have I done wrong?  I get the same result from calling CALENDAR.

Thanks.

Peter
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