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  • Subject: Re: Date from TIME opcode
  • From: bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 13:04:17 -0500
  • Importance: Normal


>Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 18:30:00 -0500
>From: D.BALE@handleman.com
>
>I need to store the current date (not job date!) in a field written out to
a
>file.
> ...
>The RPG Reference states that "The date format depends on
>the date format job attribute QDATFMT".  This is a system value assigned
to
>the job that can be changed via CHGJOB.  Given our QDATFMT value of *MDY
here
>in the states, I know I can manipulate the mmddyyyy date in a data
structure
>to get the desired yyyymmdd format.  But our overseas branches may have a
>different QDATFMT value.  I would have thought that this value could be
found
>in the program status data structure, but a search in the RPG Reference
turned
>up nothing.

Dan, I've always thought that the TIME opcode with the numeric result was
a bit silly, since it returned a value that was unusable as data within the
program.

Since you're strictly stuck with RPG III, you'd probably be best to just
call
QWCCVTDT asking for the date in *YMD format.  You'll get a 7-digit number
back -
the first digit is the century number - just add 19 to it to get the first
YY.

Barbara Morris


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