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

[Steve Davidson]

Johnny,

You should fix that. 😊

-Steve

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> On Apr 1, 2015, at 15:26, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> 
>> 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:
>>> 
>>> 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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