RE: Date weirdness in RPGLE

Barbara,
My typo, sorry. It must be the bacteria in the St. Charles High School
causing my memory issue (sorry, Local issue, probably not known outside
of this area).
Bob Cozzi
cozzi@rpgiv.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com]
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> Behalf Of bmorris@ca.ibm.com
> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 10:13 AM
> To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: Date weirdness in RPGLE
>
>
> From: "Bob Cozzi \(RPGIV\)" <cozzi@rpgiv.com>
> Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 07:33:58 -0500
>
> >This is an unexpected behavior I found when doing Y2k work.
> >The DATFMT keyword on the HEADER spec controls the format of *DATE.
The
> >format it uses is that of the job that's compiling the program, not
the
> >job running the program.
> > ...
>
> Bob, the DATFMT keyword does not control the format of *DATE.
> *DATE is controlled by the DATEDIT keyword.  The only thing
> that's controlled by the job date format is the format of
> the date part of a numeric result for the TIME opcode.
>
> This is not new behaviour.  RPG III works exactly the same way
> (regarding the H spec and the TIME opcode).
>
> (The DATFMT keyword controls the default type for date fields.)
>
> Barbara Morris
>
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