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[DanRRight]

Gives message "date out of range"

Where is utility which gives seconds since 1970?

I basically need some date and time routine which returns day of the week

[IanLambley]

Dan,

Try this

[DanRRight]

Thanks for respond from which I've got the idea that convdate@ is somehow working.

(But holly s@^&*t, unbelievable, i've lost several hours to get workaround for this routine and the reason is so dumb: the integer arguments for convdate@ are two byte integers which of course I've not expected! My request to Paul & all at Silverfrost - please remove all integer*2 arguments from all your utilities. It is noticeable amount of pain everyone who use them suffered if they use these compilers for 20 years. Nobody expects integer*2 for any reason, or cares to save several bytes of memory and hence these utilities are always source of errors, confusions and headache to declare them in each subroutine. Exclusion could be done only to 1-2 utilities which specifically handle bitmaps where for RGB even integer*1 are needed but there it is clear why short integers are needed since bitmaps could be hundreds of MB in size)

The convdate@ with that integer*2 arguments and your workaround gives me though some error telling today is Saturday which would be nice but unfortunately it is Sunday already So please check these additional seconds in 10 years.

I've made such workaround to get day of the week

[IanLambley]

Dan,

Sorry, I might have got that a little wrong. My new estimate is 315532800.

There may also be a difference due to your time difference, so you could try moving to London and trying it again. Or run the following badly written code:

[Robert]

Yep, library code agrees

[DanRRight]

Yes, that works fine on opposite side of the earth