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Date Processing
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APPENDIX B
Date Processing
SirFile uses dates in the following ways:
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To examine the CPU clock (as returned by the STCK hardware instruction) to
determine the current date, in case SirFile is under a rental or trial agreement
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To display the current date, as returned by the TIME SVC, modified by the
SYSDATE parameter or the the Sir2000 User Language Tools APPDATE clock, as
page headers in various end-user displays
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To keep track of the date and time of various changes to a file, to enable predictions
about file conditions, using the TIME SVC, modified by the SYSDATE parameter or
the
the
Sir2000 User Language Tools APPDATE clock
For headers on pages or rows that occur on printed pages or displayed screens, Sirius
Software products generally use a full four-digit year format, although they may display
dates with two-digit years in circumstances where the proper century can be inferred
from the context.
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