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  3. November 2013

Re: *ISO date in COBOL? - FIXED!

On 30-Nov-2013 08:19 -0800, Tom Hightower wrote:
(Problem fixed <<SNIP>>

After initializing the BEGIN-DATE (date) to '9999-12-31' and JELLA
(time) field to '23.59.59' , the program compiled and ran. Now to
hand it back to the programmer for her to continue working with it.


FWiW: The database treats the time 24:00:00 as greater than the time 00:00:00, such that they are not considered equivalent *except* when they are part of two TIMESTAMP values for successive dates whereby the prior date has 24.00.00 time and the [next day] later date has 00.00.00 time. Thus the effective *HIVAL for the TIME is '24.00.00', not '23.59.59'.


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