Re: Date manipulation

From: Judson McClendon (judmc_at_sunvaley0.com)
Date: 12/29/03 

Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 20:39:56 GMT

"Howard Brazee" <howard@brazee.net> wrote:
>
> "Judson McClendon" <judmc@sunvaley0.com> wrote:
> >
> > If that code is in a transaction routine that is called 1000 times a second,
> > the overhead isn't 'nothing'. And what about turning over midnight after
> > the first call and before the last call? Remember Murphy's Law. :-)
>
> But you will notice that the code said:
> DISPLAY 'SIPR702 BEGAN ' FUNCTION CURRENT-DATE (5:2)
> '/' FUNCTION CURRENT-DATE (7:2)
> '/' FUNCTION CURRENT-DATE (1:4)
> ' ' FUNCTION CURRENT-DATE (09:2) hour
> ':' FUNCTION CURRENT-DATE (11:2)
> ':' FUNCTION CURRENT-DATE (13:2).
>
> Saying when a program starts doesn't happen 1000 times a second.

True. But saying when a transaction began processing might. ;-)

> I was under the impression that this gets converted into one call though.

I would think this should be the case, even if COBOL standards do not
dictate it. A compiler would be pretty inept not to detect and optimize
such a pattern. :-) 

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