[Info-vax] Uptime for OpenVMS

[JF Mezei]

OK, in light of Bill Gunshannon's 4000 day uptime, I wanted to "edit"
the output of SHOW SYSTEM....

VMS Alpha 8.3:

$START = "17=NOV-1858 01:00:00"
$END = F$TIME()
$write sys$output f$delta_time(start,end)

%SYSTEM-F-IVTIME, invalid time

If I change "start" to have a date last year, it works.

Note that by having it at 01:00:00, it means that "start" isn't set to
"0" and should not be considered a deltatime.


Is this due to a 32 bit limitation in DCL that would not allow a
delta-time greater than 32 bits ?