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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2015-04-02 00:40, Steve Davidson wrote:
> Johnny,
>
> You should fix that. 😊

Actually, Steve, you are right. I should.
Right now, when I need such things, I use a helper program I've written, 
which do the date calculations, and gives me an absolute date, which I 
then use with submit.

What are the syntax that would make sense?
+<n>[hours|days] I guess. Anything else? You you specify after n days, 
would it be expected to run after midnight?

A common case I have is also running next week, same time (I use that 
for my backups), and also last sunday in a specific month (use that for 
changing between daylight saving). Anyone have suggestions for nice ways 
of expressing such dates/times?

	Johnny

>
> -Steve
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> 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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