DRL TIME (octal 21) - obtain date and time.

Usage:

drl    time
zero   L(date)

Where:

date
is a two-word vector which receives the date in the form of the eight ASCII characters MM/DD/YY. If L(date) is zero, no date is returned.

Description:

DRL TIME returns the date as shown above and returns the time in the A and Q registers. The A-register gets the processor time used by the current user in GCOS8 ticks. The Q-register gets the time of day in GCOSIII ticks.

One GCOS8 tick is 16 microseconds. One GCOSIII tick is 1/64 millisecond.

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