[Info-vax] Uptime for OpenVMS

[Michael Moroney]

Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:

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

Ignoring/fixing the typo, DCL has always had a delta time limition of
9999 days max.  I don't know why that is.

$ $START = "25-DEC-1983 01:00:00"
$ $write sys$output f$delta_time(start,end)
9999 12:10:35.21
$ $START = "24-DEC-1983 01:00:00"
$ $write sys$output f$delta_time(start,end)
%SYSTEM-F-IVTIME, invalid time