The Chinese Year has always been wrong, since it is still assumes 01 Jan as the start day of the year. I think I reported that to VMARK about 20 years ago...
Brian >David A. Green wrote: >>> Does any one have a Digit to Roman Numeral converter they would like >>> to share? > >Ron White responded: >> How about ICONV/OCONV with the NR function code. Look in the >> Basic Reference Manual index for roman numerals. > >A search on CDP reveals a couple interesting tidbits on this. > >According to Oliver Elphick, the NR conversion in Universe "uses a change >of alphabetic case to represent multiplication by 1000, so v=5 but V=5000." > >According to Tom Rauschenbach, [sic] "the author of the NR conversion >(someone named Hal) says >that there was a reason for the upper/lower case distinction, but he can't >remember what it was. He also claims that the Chinese New Year is wrong." >(I have no idea what that means.) > >The D3 equivalent (as if anyone here cares) is the user exit U33. >And the Reality equivalent is conversion MCDR. >R83 had conversion MCR. > >So many standards, so little time... >T >------- >u2-users mailing list >u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org >To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
