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The COBOL date handler routines are extensions to support the OS/400 date data types.
So yes, these routines are an extension of the OS and are unique to OS/400.
Maybe I should have stated:
Every other software tool I have used handles this stuff consistently - at least the ones that are still around :)
If it was an obscure seldom-used part of COBOL I could understand it, but moving a date from an internal format to a exchangeable format - and the most common format in use - doesn't make sense to me.
-----Original Message-----
From: cobol400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cobol400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of CRPence
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 9:42 AM
To: cobol400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [COBOL400-L] how to extract the most common date format - YYYYMMDD
On 29 Nov 2012 09:36, Stone, Joel wrote:
Every other OS & DB mgmt system handles this stuff consistently - at
least the ones that are still around :)
So then the COBOL /language/ is apparently an OS or a DBMS? ;-)
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