Re: Date question

Scott explains this better than I do, but what cleared a lot of confusion
for me was when someone explained to me that a date field has no native
format that concerns us.  It is stored in the data base in some mysterious
and unknown fashion.  One person told me it is in fact a 4-character field
that contains the date.   

In any event, once I realized that the date field knows what it is, then I
realized all I needed to worry about is what I want to see in my program.
 
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Booth Martin
http://www.martinvt.com
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From: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Date: 10/10/05 11:49:21
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: Date question
 
Thanks Booth, that is even better, I am still a bit unclear when you say
that a date field has no format, isn't a standard date in *ISP format? Maybe
I am not grasping what you are saying, but then again it would not be the
first time I was slow on the uptake :)
 
 
On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 11:39:08 -0500 (Central Standard Time), Booth Martin
wrote
> One needs to understand that a date field, in and of itself, has no
> format. When you read the date you have to define the format you
> want.   There are several ways to define the retrieved values from a
> date field.
>
> In the case you ask for, the easiest is probably:
>
> MYDATE         S           L         DATFMT(*USA) INZ (*SYS)
>
> And then the valus is set; no need for the eval statement.
>
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> Booth Martin
> http://www.martinvt.com
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