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  3. January 2008

Re: Date Format prior to 1940

rob wrote:

*CYMD is for all those people who still insisted on storing their dates as numeric and decided that 7 packed digits would take up less space than 8 packed digits (1250901 versus 20250901). Of course, 7 packed digits still take up 4 bytes, which is the same size as a true date field takes.

I would have thought that *CYMD was primarily for support of date parameters from *CMDs where the CPP was written in RPG. I wouldn't have expected that it would be used often for persistent storage.

I don't have examples available, so I'm just throwing out a WAG.

Regardless, it's hard to predict what people will do in general. You might be right.

Tom Liotta


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