RE: Generating Julian Date

Hi Douglas,

A date field with DATFMT(*JUL) will give it to you.
You can move any other "D" data type field to this field and the system will
convert it to Julian format for you.  e.g.,  D'06/017'  (the field would
show '06/017' for January 17, 2006).
If you don't want the edit symbol in the result, then don't declare a Julian
DATFMT field, just a 5-digit numeric field and use MOVE
C   *JUL0    MOVE  myDateField   userJulian  6 0

-Bob Cozzi
www.RPGxTools.com
RPG xTools - Enjoy programming again.


-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Douglas W. Palme
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 1:58 PM
To: RPG Group
Subject: Generating Julian Date

One of our customers is requiring us to generate a material number based 
upon the following:

Julian Date
Year
Release Number

The release number we will generate based upon what has already been used 
before, however I haven't played with julian dates in years, what I am 
needing is just the julian number for the day for the year we are currently 
in.

suggestions on how to extract that?


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