1 Apr
2015
1 Apr
'15
9:11 p.m.
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"..?
sampsa
1 Apr
1 Apr
9:19 p.m.
On 2015-04-01 21:11, Sampsa Laine 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"..?
Eh... Which operating system?
Johnny
--
Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
9:19 p.m.
OpenVMS 8.3, my bad.
On 1 Apr 2015, at 20:19, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
On 2015-04-01 21:11, Sampsa Laine 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"..?
Eh... Which operating system?
Johnny
--
Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol 
9:20 p.m.
New subject: Stupid question - relative time to make SUBMIT/AFTER= work after 3 hours
On Wed, 01 Apr 2015 20:11:17 +0100, Sampsa Laine wrote:
What is the correct syntax for /AFTER= to say "3
hours from now"..?
I'd say submit/after="+3:"
$ submit/after="+3:" wait.com
Job WAIT (queue SYS$BATCH, entry 46) holding until 2-APR-2015 00:16
$ sh tim
1-APR-2015 21:16:28
HTH, :)
G.
9:22 p.m.
That worked, thanks.
Sampsa
On 1 Apr 2015, at 20:20, G. <gerry77 at mail.com> wrote:
On Wed, 01 Apr 2015 20:11:17 +0100, Sampsa Laine
wrote:
What is the correct syntax for /AFTER= to say
"3 hours from now"..?
I'd say submit/after="+3:"
$ submit/after="+3:" wait.com
Job WAIT (queue SYS$BATCH, entry 46) holding until 2-APR-2015 00:16
$ sh tim
1-APR-2015 21:16:28
HTH, :)
G.
9:22 p.m.
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).
paul
9:26 p.m.
On 2015-04-01 21:22, Paul_Koning at Dell.com wrote:
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
--
Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
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). 
2 Apr
2 Apr
12:40 a.m.
New subject: Stupid question - relative time to make SUBMIT/AFTER= work after 3 hours
Johnny,
You should fix that. ?
-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:
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
--
Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol 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).
3 Apr
3 Apr
3:37 p.m.
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
>
> --
> Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
> || on a psychedelic trip
> email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books
> pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
--
Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
4 p.m.
On Apr 3, 2015, at 9:37 AM, Johnny Billquist <bqt
at softjar.se> wrote:
On 2015-04-02 00:40, Steve Davidson wrote:
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).
paul
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?
4:05 p.m.
On 2015-04-03 16:00, Paul_Koning at Dell.com wrote:
Can you specify a relative number of days and an absolute time?
Johnny
--
Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
On Apr 3, 2015, at 9:37 AM, Johnny Billquist
<bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
On 2015-04-02 00:40, Steve Davidson wrote:
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). 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?
4:14 p.m.
On Apr 3, 2015, at 10:05 AM, Johnny Billquist <bqt
at softjar.se> wrote:
On 2015-04-03 16:00, Paul_Koning at Dell.com wrote:
Can you specify a relative number of days and an absolute time?
Certainly. For example: "1:20pm+3days?
So I should have said: a date/time spec is an absolute date/time spec followed by a
relative date/time spec, or just one of these. Absolute time is date and/or time, only in
that order. Relative date/time is +/- days and/or hours and/or minutes in any order.
paul
On Apr 3, 2015, at 9:37 AM, Johnny Billquist
<bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
...
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?
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).
4:10 p.m.
New subject: Stupid question - relative time to make SUBMIT/AFTER= work after 3 hours
I would model it after VMS. The documentation is already written. ?
-Steve
Sent from my iPhone
On Apr 3, 2015, at 09:37, Johnny Billquist <bqt at
softjar.se> wrote:
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
>
> --
> Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
> || on a psychedelic trip
> email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books
> pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
--
Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
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