[HECnet] Stupid question - relative time to make SUBMIT/AFTER= work after 3 hours

Johnny Billquist bqt at softjar.se
Wed Apr 1 12:26:35 PDT 2015


On 2015-04-01 21:22, Paul_Koning at Dell.com wrote:
>
>> On Apr 1, 2015, at 3:11 PM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:
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>> I have a script I want to have resubmit itself to run every 3 hours, but can't get the relative time right...
>>
>> What is the correct syntax for /AFTER= to say "3 hours from now"..?
>
> Which OS?  VMS?
>
> I don’t remember whether there are some differences here among operating systems.  On RSTS/E, you’d say /AFTER=+3HOURS (or +3H for short).

And in RSX you cannot specify relative times. And you can hardly specify 
relative dates either. TOMORROW is just about the only relative thing it 
knows about.

	Johnny

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