Re: Why RPG IV ...

Buck,

I understand what you are saying.  And the other poster acknowledged that. 
 However, what about his initial question of who cares about what century 
when going from 0001-01-01 to 01/01/01?  Normally this is just for display 
purposes.  Hopefully it's only for the display purposes of a product 
requirement date, and not a birth date.  Something that a little human 
intelligence can interpret successfully.

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> sounds reasonable that if the date field is
> defined with a date format that the RPG
> compiler SHOULD keep the date format...

Something like keeping all dates as a secret internal format of *ISO
and when other formats are used, down translate the internal date to
the display date?  But how would you handle incoming dates, e.g.
07/27/01

This could be my grandfather's date of birth, or my 2 year old's.
Which *ISO date would you choose to promote this *MDY date to?
Remember that the very next record typed in may require the _other_
century interpretation, so a fixed window doesn't cut it.
  --buck



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