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I used to really like that multiply by 10000.01 trick for dates when I
started out programming.
Made me feel like a real wizard and that I knew how to do things mere
mortals didn't even understand.
-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Jon Paris
Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 11:47 AM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Date formats (was Frank Doherty will be back on Tuesday (all
being well))
"some countries"? How about "just about all". MDY is such an unusual
format that in IBM date terms the four digit year version is
designated as *USA!
When I was working on IBM's Y2K offerings the contractor that produced
the tool did not originally include an MDY version as they had never
heard of it. As a result (and luckily for them) they had never
encountered the idiotic multiply by 10000.01 conversion method either.
Jon Paris
www.Partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com
On Dec 14, 2009, at 12:23 PM, rpg400-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
In some countries, the date order is DD/MM/YYYY, instead of MM/DD/
YYYY as is
the custom in th US.
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