Re: Time Math in RPGLE

Hi Arlene,

> I want to retrieve the hour and minutes between two dates & times, two
> timestamps so to speak.

This looks to be one of those questions which will get 50 replies, and
cause someone to say "look and see if there are already answers before
posting another one!"  So, for the record, as of the time of this writing,
nobody has replied.

Of course, by the time this message makes it to the list, there will
probably be 10 other people who have already answered your question,
so please be gentle with me :)

> 
> How do I define a timestamp in the D specs???
> 
> I have looked in the books and probably missed it, has anyone got any hints
> for me? 
> 
> Arlene Soderlund  
> AS/400        Project Leader/Sr. Programmer Analyst   

Timestamps are data type "Z".  As far as I know, there isn't a direct way 
to get "hours and minutes" between two timestamps, but you can get minutes
and do a simple DIV/MVR to conver it to hours and minutes.

Here's a quick example:

     D timestamp1      S               Z
     D timestamp2      S               Z
     D RawMinutes      S             10I 0
     D Hours           S             10I 0
     D Minutes         S             10I 0


     c     timestamp2    subdur    timestamp1    RawMinutes:*MN
     c     RawMinutes    div       60            Hours
     c                   mvr                     Minutes


HTH

      

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