[Info-vax] %DCL-W-IVDTIME and the DCL WAIT command

[George Cornelius]

In article <m2BOVgpBldm2 at eisner.encompasserve.org>, koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
>    Let's see:
> 
>   pipe show time ; wait 26-jan-2012 14:48 ; show time
>   26-JAN-2012 14:47:20
>   26-JAN-2012 14:48:20
> 
>    Looks OK to me, but disagrees with HELP WAIT.

The key is that if you omit fields at the bottom end, DCL
substitutes the corresponding information from the _current_
time.  So if you were to have used

 wait 26-jan-2012 15

at that time (14:47:20) it would have waited until 15:57:20 .

Remember, the ability to provide a _target time_ is completely
undocumented, so I suppose that means they are free to implement
it any way they wish.

George