Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl
Path: watmath!ljdickey
From: ljdickey@math.waterloo.edu (Leroy J. (Lee) Dickey)
Subject: Re: Algorithm for datebase function
Message-ID: <1992Jul14.015309.29661@math.waterloo.edu>
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <1992Jul6.182509.27796@utagraph.uta.edu>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1992 01:53:09 GMT
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In article <1992Jul6.182509.27796@utagraph.uta.edu> d166alab@utarlg.uta.edu (AJAY BARVE) writes:
>Hi usenet comunity,
>MessageID: <6JUL199213242206@utarlg.uta.edu>
>Organization: The University of Texas at Arlington
>NewsSoftware: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
>
>This function converts a date in 3 TAKE QUAD TS format to an integer.
>I am also looking for the code to convert the integer back to 3 TAKE
>QUAD TS.  The integer usually represents the number of days since
>Jan 1, 1900.  How ever I dont care what the base date is as long as
>it is after Jan 1, 1980.  If any one out there can help me I will
>really appreciate it since it will save me some time.

I think you will find what you need in the Toronto Toolkit.

Check the anonymous ftp file server
	watserv1.uwaterloo.ca
in the directory
	langauages/apl/workspaces/toronto

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