Re: Date question

At 15:40 01.06.01 -0700, you wrote:

>I am trying to write a procedure that will bring back the number of months
>between 2 dates.  The problem is that SUBDUR doesn't give me the number I
>want.  For example, the number of months between any day in June 2001 and
>any day in July 2001 is 1 month, June 2001 and August 2001 is 2 months,
>etc.  Does anyone have a solution.  We are on V4R4.
>
>I tried Jim Langston response on 5/31/01 to Date Math....but that didn't
>work for my problem

Maybe you should calculate the difference in days and decide yourself how 
many months that shall be...

July minus June is always 1. Even when it's 2000-07-01 minus 2000-06-30 or 
2000-07-31 and 2000-06-01 which would lead a human being to another opinion.



Mit freundlichen Grüssen / best regards

Anton Gombkötö

Avenum Technologie GmbH
Wien - Mattsee - Stuttgart
e-mail Office   :       mailto:Anton.Gombkoetoe@avenum.com
Homepage        :       http://www.avenum.com

Lest das Redbook / read the redbook "Who knew you could do that with RPG?":
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg245402.html

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