From: Mark(desalinate for e-mail)Forsyth
[forSALTsythm@optushome.com.aSALTu]
Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 6:09 AM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: Re: Figuring out the Date of the 3rd Saturday of each Month

On Mon, 04 Nov 2002 13:49:45 GMT, Hein van den Heuvel <hein_netscape@eps.zko.dec.com> gushed forth:
>$ typ tmp.com
>$First=f$cvtime("1-"+p1,"absolute","date")
>$Days=f$loc(f$extr(0,2,f$cvt(First,,"WEEKDAY")),"SaFrThWeTuMoSu")/2
>$First_Saturday=f$cvtime(First + "+''Days'-","absolute","date")
>$Third_Saturday=f$cvtime(First_Saturday + "+14-","absolute","date")
>$write sys$output "''first', ''Days', ''First_saturday',
>''Third_Saturday'"


Hmmm. Neat. I NEVER would've thought of that.

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