Re: RPG - conversion vs re-write

["Joe Teff" <jteff19@xxxxxxx>]

Booth said
>>But John, they don't   see " 00/00/00".   They see  "          "  (blanks,
>>nada, nothing) so we don't have to explain anything.   We also don't have
>>to do anything.  It just happens that way.  If users start seeing 
>>"1/01/0001" popping up everywhere they'll kid the daylights out of us.  If
>>we have to start coding separate fields, doing IFGTs, and setting up work
>>fields we won't have gained a single advantage. 

John Carr wrote:
> BTW are you using a 'Z' EDTCDE to get the "Blank" effect?  I thought not
> using 'Y' EDTCDE on a date was against the law?

John,
  I regularly use EDTWRD('  /  /  ') instead of EDTCDE(Y) to display dates. 
Users like seeing blanks for "absence of a date" than seeing 0/00/00.

Joe Teff
QDS
Bloomington, MN
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