[Info-vax] Uptime for OpenVMS

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2011-05-11 10.56, JF Mezei wrote:
>
> 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 ?

If the above is literally what you wrote, then it could also be the 
inability to parse "17=NOV-1858" as a valid date. :-D

	Johnny