RE: date math in CL

I'm going to assume that if you can't write an RPG, you wouldn't be able to
buy a command utilities package.

Julian is not a bad idea.  But even better would be Lilian which counts the
numbers of days from 14 October 1582.

Real easy to do date arithmetic with Lilian dates.

Check out the following APIs
---Convert Date to Lilian Format (CEEDAYS)  
---Convert Lilian Date to Character Format (CEEDATE)  

HTH,
Charles

> -----Original Message-----
> From: G Armour [mailto:garmour400m@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 12:59 PM
> To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: date math in CL
> 
> 
> I have a need, in CL, to add 7 days to the current date and 
> store it in a
> variable.  I do not want to call an RPG program.  IBM commands and API
> calls are acceptable.
> 
> For those thinking of using a julian date, that's fine, but I have to
> accommodate the possibility of adding 7 days to December 26, 
> and expecting
> a valid date in return.  In fact, this is the route I'm currently
> experimenting with, monitoring for errors on the CVTDAT 
> command.  But if
> there's a better way...
> 
> TIA, 
> GA
> 
> 
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