The Convert Date String to Quadword routine converts an absolute
date string into an OpenVMS internal format date-time quadword.
That is, given an input date/time string of a specified format,
LIB$CONVERT_DATE_STRING converts this string to an OpenVMS
internal format time.
Format
LIB$CONVERT_DATE_STRING date-string ,date-time
[,user-context] [,flags] [,defaults]
[,defaulted-fields]
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