Re: Specifying dates in DDS

["James W. Kilgore" <qappdsn@xxxxxxx>]

neil.williams@pocruises.com wrote:

>      <<snip>>
>
>      What if;
>
>      1) The database is accessible stateside and in Europe, and each
>      location wants the dates displayed as 'native' e.g. MMDDYY stateside
>      and DDMMYY in Europe.

Date data types are as easy to convert from/to any of the formats as it can get.

>
>
>      2) There are special dates in the RPG part of the application (e.g.
>      99/99/99 and 00/00/00.

Use *HIVAL and *LOVAL respectively, gets you the same result.

>
>
>      3) We want to write 'Date Engines' for all our date
>      handling/validation, and these must comply with 1) above.

Regardless of the date storage option you are facing, I imagine you would 
convert
all incoming dates to a single format (ccyymmdd) then run the date through your
'Date Engines', see answer to 1) above.

If you are going to go through the exercise of changing your application.  Go 
the
way of the future.

My 2 cents.

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