From:	MERC::"uunet!CRVAX.SRI.COM!RELAY-INFO-VAX"  6-AUG-1992 00:45:10.69
To:	info-vax@kl.sri.com
CC:	
Subj:	WAIT... UNDOCUMENTED "FEATURE" DCL correction

In article <1992Aug5.085320.1@uwovax.uwo.ca>, brent@uwovax.uwo.ca (Brent Sterner) writes:
> 
>>>Luckily, $ WAIT has an undocumented syntax: $ WAIT <date> <time>
>>>that will do what you want:
>>>
>>>        $ WAIT 'F$CVTIME("TODAY+3-12:00:00","ABSOLUTE")'
>>>                                ^^^^^^^^^^

	THE ABOVE IS INCORRECT!!!  (No, I didn't wait 3.5 days to find
	out, nor did I figure it out on my own, despide Mike's suggestion
	I did.)-:  Mike Clay noticed his error and sent me corrected DCL:

>Brent,
>
>Turns out I gave you some bad code... :-(
>The following is what you want:
>
>        $ DELTA_TIME   =  "3-12:00:00"
>        $ CURRENT_TIME =  F$TIME()
>        $ FUTURE_TIME  =  F$CVTIME("''CURRENT_TIME'+''DELTA_TIME'","ABSOLUTE")
>        $ WAIT 'FUTURE_TIME'
>
>You probably figured this out already that TODAY+<delta> starts at midnight
>last night plus the delta-time, where I'm sure what you wanted was the current
>time plus the delta.

	Thanks again, Mike.   b.
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