RE: Calculating Duration in days/hours from timestamp field

Now you guys got me playing with converting dates...
Can anybody tell me why this gives me a "The factor 2 entry of charDate is
too small to contain a timestamp" (compile) error?
The manual says I can move a character date to a timestamp and I have the
(*Zero) to indicate that there are no separators...

d charDate        s              8    Inz('19570630')
d timeStamp       s               z   Inz
c     *iso0         move      charDate      timeStamp
c                   eval      *inlr=*on


-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Klement [mailto:klemscot@klements.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 8:59 AM
To: 'rpg400-l@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: Calculating Duration in days/hours from timestamp field



It sounds like you got it working, already.   Here's a sample of doing
the same thing with timestamps instead of date/time fields.  Someone
might find it useful someday, who knows? :)

     D timethen        S               Z   inz(z'2002-02-27-16.30.27')
     D timenow         S               Z   inz(*sys)
     D totalmin        S             10i 0
     D min             S             10i 0
     D hrs             S             10i 0

     c     timenow       subdur    timethen      totalmin:*mn
     c                   eval      hrs = %div(totalmin:60)
     c                   eval      min = %rem(totalmin:60)
     c                   dump
     c                   eval      *inlr = *on


On Tue, 21 May 2002, Dean Bathke wrote:

> Thanks Martin
>
> I couldnt find much info on %DIFF although it DOES roll off the tongue
> rather nicely, LOL
> In any case I found this little sample and modified it to work as I needed
> it to.
> If you have any info or examples you want to share concerning the %DIFF
BIF,
> Id love to see it..
> Thanks
>
>
> Dtimenow          S               T   inz(*sys)
> Dtimethen         s               t   inz(T'16.30.27')
> Ddatenow          s               d   inz(*sys)
> Ddatethen         s               d   inz(D'2002-02-27')
> Dmin              s             10i 0
> Dtotalmin         s             10i 0
> Ddays             s             10i 0
> Dhrs              s             10i 0
> C     timenow       subdur    timethen      min:*mn
> C     datenow       subdur    datethen      days:*d
> C                   eval      totalmin = days * 1440 + min
> C                   eval      hrs = %div(totalmin:60)
> C                   eval      min = %rem(totalmin:60)
> C                   dump
> C                   eval      *inlr = *on
>

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