RE: Date conversion

Rick,

This is a procedure that is called in one single interactive program, on
our development system where there are only 3 users/developers, so
performance is not much of an issue.

Anyway, this was just an excercise for me, as I'm beginning to discover the
joys of /FREE.

Best regards,

Peter






                                                         Peter,

                                                         You might want to
                                                         do some testing of
                                                         your procedure for
                                                         performance.
                                                         Using
                                                         the BIF's for date
                                                         conversion has
                                                         proven actually
                                                         slower than some
                                                         of the
                                                         older methods
                                                         (moves, data
                                                         structures, etc.)
                                                         when processing
                                                         large amounts
                                                         of records. ?While
                                                         I agree in
                                                         principle with
                                                         your desire to use
                                                         the BIF's,
                                                         if your procedure
                                                         will be called
                                                         numerous times the
                                                         use of BIF's could
                                                         actually hurt
                                                         performance.

                                                         Just a thought.

                                                         Rick




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