Re: Date data type question

Goodbar, Loyd (AFS-Water Valley) wrote:
> 
> I'm reengineering an application in RPG/IV, and I am using date data
> types extensively. A big problem I'm having is processing birth dates.
> Many people I'm processing have birth dates before 1940, so I get the
> error "The year portion of a Date or Timestamp value is not in the range
> 1940 to 2039." Is there anything I can do to use these dates with the
> date data type or must I still use a numeric format? Running V3R7.
> 
> Thanks,
> Loyd Goodbar

I ran into that too on our y2k project.  You are getting this error
message when you attempt to convert date data to *MDY or *YMD format. 
What I did to get around that was to convert it to *USA numeric 8,0.
then strip off the century portion of the year.  Most of the time I just
displayed it in an 8 digit format, but there were a few instances where
I didn't have enough room left to display the full 8 digits.

I think the reason you get this error when you attempt this, is that if
you try to convert back to an 8 digit year it will yield incorrect
results.

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