Re: Date format in V3R2?

Hi Brad,

Why not skip all that stuff and simply do the TIME opcode into a timestamp
result field, then move it in whatever format you want to a numeric field?


      D MyDate          S              8p 0
      D SysDate         S               D   DATFMT(*ISO)
      C                   TIME                    SysDate
      C    *ISO           MOVE      SysDate       MYDATE

Unless there's some reason you want to know the job date format independent
of your objective of logging the date in yyyymmdd format. That's something
you'd think would be in the program status data structure, but I don't see
it.

hth,
Peter Dow
Dow Software Services, Inc.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Stone, Brad V (TC)" <bvstone@taylorcorp.com>
To: <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 7:37 AM
Subject: Date format in V3R2?


> 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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