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  3. September 2007

Re: Those flippin dates

Pete,

You could simply use the following overlay technique (assuming MMDDYYDate is
your date field (which could be either signed or packed):

D Char6 DS
D Char2_1 2A
D Char2_2 2A
D Char2_3 2A
D Sign6 1 6S 0

/free

Sign6 = MMDDYYDate;
Char6 = Char2_3 + Char2_1 + Char2_2;
MMDDYYDate = Sign6;

/end-free


On 9/5/07, Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

What would be the most expedient way to convert a 6.0 numeric field that
represents a date in MMDDYY format to a 6.0 numeric field that
represents a date in YYMMDD order? The resultant numeric is used in an
SQL statement comparing it to a numeric (not a date) field. The old
technique of YYMMDD = MMDDYY * 10000.0001 appears not to work because
the program is cranky at runtime about the result field not being large
enough.

Since the compare is a numeric I figured that the math would be
numeric. Or, is using a date field and converting it to a numeric host
variable for the SQL the way to go?

Pete Helgren

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