RE: Generating Julian Date

Thanks Bob I think I have it finally....

On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 14:18:54 -0600, Bob Cozzi wrote
> 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?
> 
> If you bought it, it was hauled by a truck - somewhere, sometime.
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If you bought it, it was hauled by a truck - somewhere, sometime.