Re: Date arithmetic missing in REXX

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From: Rony.Flatscher
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 11:21

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In <4ksb9p$1eps@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net>, javier5@ibm.net writes:
>Today I was revising a program at work (OS2 REXX) and to my
>surprise I could not find a way to do date arithmetic. I found 
>the date("base") which returs a julian date, but I could not
>find anything that takes that format back into any other format.

Javier5:

You might want to try

 ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/os2/dev32/rexx/datergf1.zip

 datergf1.zip Jan 31  1995    22043 REXX date arithmetics/conversions

The upcoming Object Rexx BTW has provisions to transfer dates from one
format to another.

Regards,

---rony

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Subject: Re: Date arithmetic missing in REXX
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