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  • Subject: Date format in V3R2?
  • From: "Stone, Brad V (TC)" <bvstone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 09:37:39 -0500

Is there any way to get the date format used in the job in an RPG program?

Heres my dilema.  I am logging data and always want to store the date in
YYYYMMDD format in an 8,0 field.  

So, with I do a TIME operation I get the date and time.  Now, I want to do a
test(d) on the date to see if it's *USA, *ISO, or *EUR.  I'm seeing bugs in
the way it works, though.  

Does anyone have any suggestions on a good way to do this?  It has to be
compliant with V3R2.  Here's what I have that doesn't work:

     D                 DS
     D TimeStamp               1     14  0
     D  OperTime               1      6  0 INZ
     D  OperDate               7     14  0 INZ
      *
     D ISODate         S               D   DATFMT(*ISO)
     D USADate         S               D   DATFMT(*USA)
     D EURDate         S               D   DATFMT(*EUR)
      *
     C                   TIME                    TimeStamp
     C     *USA          TEST(d)                 OperDate               99
     C     *EUR          TEST(d)                 OperDate               98
     C     *ISO          TEST(d)                 OperDate               97
      *
     C                   select
     C                   when      (not *IN99)
     C                   MOVE      OperDate      USADate
     C                   MOVE      USADate       ISODate
     C                   MOVE      ISODate       MYDATE
     C                   when      (not *IN98)
     C                   MOVE      OperDate      EURDate
     C                   MOVE      EURDate       ISODate
     C                   MOVE      ISODate       MYDATE
     C                   other
     C                   MOVE      OperDate      MYDATE
     C                   endsl

Example of error is:

20010304
20010304
20010304
20011004 Looks like october 4, should be April 10th.
20011004 Looks like october 4, should be April 10th.
20011004 Looks like october 4, should be April 10th.
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