Paul Probably "Well done, Mike" since it wouldn't surprise me that Mike Cowlishaw[1] specified that behaviour for time-related functions.
[1] http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_people.nsf/pages/cowlishaw.index.html Chris Mason ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Gilmartin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, 29 October, 2006 4:23 PM Subject: Re: Why would Rexx Date/Time be different from ASCBEWST Date/Time? > In a recent note, Tomas Fott said: > > > Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 02:56:06 -0600 > > > > Read the manual: TSO/E REXX Reference. > > ... multiple calls to any of the DATE or TIME functions or both in a > > single expression or clause are guaranteed to be consistent with > > each other. > > > And I just verified by experiment that it works as described even > if there's an intervening call to a function which itself calls > TIME(). > > Good job, IBM! > > -- gil > -- > StorageTek > INFORMATION made POWERFUL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

