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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2015-04-03 16:00, Paul_Koning at Dell.com wrote:
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>> On Apr 3, 2015, at 9:37 AM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
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>> On 2015-04-02 00:40, Steve Davidson wrote:
>>> Johnny,
>>>
>>> You should fix that. 😊
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>> 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.
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>> 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?
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> FWIW, the RSTS syntax is optional absolute time +/- relative hours and/or +/- relative minutes.  For example (from the help examples): "5:45PM+3HOURS-5MINUTES”  ("5:45PM+3H-5M” is also valid).

Can you specify a relative number of days and an absolute time?

	Johnny

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