README.1ST [310,4] Brad L. Tinney Clunk Library - A collection of routines to handle 8-byte clunks. A clunk being the number of 100 nano-second time intervals since 17-NOV-1858. That date being the Smithsonian Astrophysical Base Date (celebrating the day the first photographic plate was exposed at the Harvard Smithsonian Observatory). These routines make use of the routines in the STRLIB library on account [310,3]. Two macro routines are included and part of the library. Clunks are used as the time/date field by Datatrieve as well as time fields in file headers. ASCCLK Routine to convert a time/date ascii string to an 8 byte CLUNK value. The input string is null terminated and always 18 bytes long in the following format: hh:mm:ss dd-mmm-yy CLKASC Routine to convert an 8 byte CLUNK value to a time/date ascii string. The output string is null terminated and always 18 bytes long in the following format: hh:mm:ss dd-mmm-yy TIMCLK Routine to get the current time and return the time/date in the 8-byte clunk format.