Re: Date Handling Problem - The answer. -- COBOL400-L

If you are using ILE, the default is to return a two digit year.  To get a
four digit year you have to supply an extra parameter as follows:-
Accept DateSetup  of ExtData from Date YYYYMMDD

According to the manual for version 4 release 3, OPM cobol returns the date
in a PIC 9(6) format which implies only a 2 digit year.

If I remember correctly from the Y2K issues, any year before 39 was
considered to be next century and any year after was this century.  It also
has something to do with system value QCENTURY

JP




                    "Eric Tubbs"
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                    14/08/2002 17:49
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To all,

JP wrote earlier
> How many digits does the date function return? Which Cobol are you
using OPM or ILE)?

First, I believe the COBOL being used is ILE which is on AS/400 V4R4. But I
pulled this information from the licensing:

V4R4M0      OPM COBOL for AS/400
V4R4M0      *PRV ILE COBOL for AS/400
V4R4M0      Client Encryption 128-bit
V4R4M0      Point-of-Sale Utility for AS/400
V3R6M0      ADTS CS/400
V3R6M0      CODE/400

Second, well hopefully I will answer this question right:

Month returns 2 digits
Day returns 2 digits
Year returns 4 digits (well at least it is being displayed that way, but i
believe the zeros are now being put in the front of it.

This is the output from my QPRINT file as you have already seen:

08/14/0002

Should I pull information from the compile report??


Bruce wrote earlier:

>this returns the date as a two digit year. what you want is accept
today-date from date YYYYMMDD. this will return the 4 digit year, and note
that the format is in ISO sequence.

I have already tried this step, and even trying to use the FUNCTION
CURRENT-DATE or something close to that.

When I attempt to do this:

0140.00            ACCEPT TODAYS-DATE FROM DATE YYYYMMDD.

An error is displayed in the message error saying:

"A period is required before YYYYMMDD. Line rejected."

So I have followed by adding another period, then it asks for a space, and
so on.

Thanks,

Eric

Howard Weatherly, your message wasnt available on the server when I checked
it, but I will check to see if your post did come through later though.


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