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08-05-2004
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Outputting a VMS quadword time in UNIX
I am writing a C program under UNIX which needs to write out a VMS quadword time for the current time (to a file)
This quadword is the number of 100 nanoseconds since 1858. I know I can easily get the time in secs since 1970 in UNIX/C. The problem is how to multiply by a rather large number (convert to nanoseconds) and add a rather large number (difference between 1858 and 1970 in 100 nanoseconds) in a language that hasnt got quadwords. 
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08-06-2004
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You want to create a VMS quadword - they are 64 bit unsigned integers. By the way, the quadword date stores information down to the millisecond (1000th of a second).
You have to know what a long is on your Unix machine - they are not all the same - what Driver is asking. If a long is 32 bits, then you need to write out a long long. If a long on your unix box is 64 bits, then you need to write out a long. That's problem one. Problem two. Is your Unix system big endian or small endian? For VMS to read the value it has to be written small endian format. VMS uses what is called a Modified Julian Date - mjd. This is a simple algorithm that takes two dates and returns the number of days between them. The VMS mjd is the number of days since Jan 17, 1858 which for this program is 0,0,0 as arguments (gives a zero day), so you only need to know the number of days for the date you are working with. You need to add the number of hours * 3600, plus the number of minutes * 60, plus the number of seconds to your you result (as milliseconds). This code returns an int - on my machine this is a 32 bit long. Arguments are the year as a number (eg, 1999), the month (1-12), and the day (1-31) Code:
int mjd(int dateyear,int datemonth,int dateday)
{
int y = dateyear;
int m = datemonth - 1;
int d = dateday - 678882;
d += 146097 * (y / 400);
y %= 400;
if (m >= 2){
m -= 2;
}else {
m += 10;
--y;
}
y += (m / 12);
m %= 12;
if (m < 0) {
m += 12;
--y;
}
d += (306 * m + 5) / 10;
d += 146097 * (y / 400);
y %= 400;
if (y < 0) {
y += 400;
d -= 146097;
}
d += (y & 3) * 365;
y >>= 2;
d += 1461 * (y % 25);
y /= 25;
d += (y & 3) * 36524;
return d;
}
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