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  • Subject: Re: Time Math in RPGLE
  • From: Anton Gombkötö <Gombkoetoe@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 09:18:22 +0200

At 23:30 31.07.00 -0700, Eric N. Wilson wrote:
>Anton,
>
>Fortunately or unfortunately depending on the way you look at it
>Date/Time/Timestamp fields are not allowed to contain invalid information at
>any time according to the X/Open spec. The good thing about that is that if
>you have a timestamp field you know you can read the value out of it and it
>will be a valid timestamp...

I must have been unclear,
I wasn't intending to force any value into a date / time / timestamp field.
I'm quite happy with the fact that data types are more seriously handled in 
RPG nowadays.


Mit freundlichen Grüssen / Best regards

Anton Gombkötö
mailto:Gombkoetoe@ASsoft.com

AS Software GmbH
http://www.assoft.com

Jedleseer Strasse 3
A-1210  Wien

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