Re: Finding the Elapsed time between two date fields

Wow did I misinterpret the manual on this one. Before this goes any further
I see the error in my ways.

(I am now burying my head in shame)

Andy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Cozzi" <cozzi@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 1:19 PM
Subject: RE: Finding the Elapsed time between two date fields


> You can't.
> You get...
> The total hours between the two date/time values.
> The total minutes between the two values.
> And
> The total seconds between the two values.
> Using your three opcodes.
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> So, for example, if the elapse time was 10 hours and 15 seconds you would
> get:
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> 10 hours
> 600 minutes
> 3615 seconds
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> Bob Cozzi
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Andy Hautamaki
> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 11:57 AM
> To: RPG400-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Finding the Elapsed time between two date fields
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> I have two date fields *MDY with these values. '18:09:04' and '16:26:57'.
> All I want to do is find the total elapsed time in hours,minutes and
seconds
> between them.
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> I'm  using the SUBDUR like this;
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> EndTime    SUBDUR    StartTime    Hour:*H
> EndTime    SUBDUR    StartTime    Minute:*MN
> EndTime    SUBDUR    StartTime    Second:*S
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> Hour,Minute and second are part of a  6,0 data structure. When I put my
> program in debug my 'elapsed' variable contains 010227. I suspect its
> because of negatives I'm getting the minutes and seconds the way I am.
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> What am I missing here? (Should I be doing this differently then SUBDUR?)
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> Andy
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