[Info-vax] how to do a search for just today's info

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On Wednesday, January 28, 2015 at 1:45:05 PM UTC-5, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2015-01-28 17:59:51 +0000, pcoviello said:
> 

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> 
> OK.  If those assumptions of mine are correct, then this should get you 
> close to where you want:
> 
> $ slashes = f$cvtime(,,"MONTH") + "/" + f$cvtime(,,"DAY") + "/" + 
> f$extract(2,2,f$cvtime(,,"YEAR"))
> $ show symbol slashes
>   SLASHES = "01/28/15"
> $
> 
> This probably used with something like the following command:
> 
> $ PIPE SEARCH sys$scratch:cconsole.tmp today | search sys$pipe 
> "''slashes'" /output=sys$scratch:cconsole-today.tmp
> 
> If you're using a crappy font, that's a vertical bar in there, and then 
> there's a double quote, and two single quotes, the symbolname slash, a 
> single quote, and a double quote.
> 
> The quoting is used as DCL treats the slash as a special character.
> 
> #########
> 

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> 
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> Pure Personal Opinion | HoffmanLabs LLC


A possible corner case:  if the command

$ slashes = f$cvtime(,,"MONTH") + "/" + f$cvtime(,,"DAY") + "/" +
f$extract(2,2,f$cvtime(,,"YEAR")) 

is executed so as to span from before to after the stroke of midnight at the end of the last day of a month (or year), might it produce misleading results?  In other words, do each of the f$cvtime executions take the then-current time, or is the time when the first one executes used by all?