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  • Subject: Re: FTP RCMD Date Weirdness
  • From: "Rolf Mittag" <rm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 16:45:06 +0200
  • Organization: r m e d v

not a big surprise. it works as designed. look into
the RPG manual :

<snip>

*DATE

For an interactive job or batch program, the user date special words are set
to the value of the job date when the program starts running in the system.
The value of the user date special words are not updated during program
processing, even if the program runs past midnight or if the job date is
changed. Use the TIME operation code to obtain the time and date while the
program is running.

</snip>

since RCMD is processed by an arbitrary server job,
you never can tell when that job was started and thus
which date you'll get.

using UDATE for the actual date was never a very good
idea.

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