Re: Dates

You don't have to specify a date format when you do conversion.  If you do
not, it uses/expects the format specified in the date field definition.

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From: "Alan Campin" <Alan.Campin@CaseLogic.com>
To: <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 4:05 PM
Subject: Dates


> The questions about dates has brought to mind a questions I have been
> wondering about for a long times.
>
> What is the purpose of stating a date format for a date when you declare
it
> in RPG ILE?
>
> The date is always stored in an internal date format as far I know so why
so
> *ISO or some other value? Very hard to believe that IBM stores it
> differently if you say *ISO or *MDY.
>
> When you do a conversion, you specify the format to or from. This has just
> never made any sense to me. Have nothing in the documentation that
explains
> this.
>
> Thanks for you responses.
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