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Date:	Fri, 13 Feb 2004 09:29:52 PST8
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: call(TZ) ? - Rexx

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Harry Motin wrote:
>
> Have you considered using REXX for this task?
> SET > C:\ENVIR.TXT

Thanks Harry, but I need some error checking which is why I want some
code in the middle. For example, if somebody put
SET TZ=JUSTDUCKY
in their config.sys I want to know what GMT offset the software will
use. DosGetDateTime should give me that.

> Now, tell me how are you going to use the
> DOSGETDATETIME call? It's my understanding that
> this function is part of the OS/2 trace facility.

It's a library routine in one of the C headers. I haven't looked inside
the header yet so I don't know what actually gets done.

Rexx has a TIME() function but it doesn't return the GMT offset. I
didn't see a Rexx Sys*() call that would return it either, so you would
have to write a DLL with a routine which makes the call and returns the
value. Given the "Hello World" level of what I need, it actually seems
like overkill to write it in Rexx.

- Peter

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