RE: Date subroutine!

["Kahn, David" <KAHN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim Truax (truax@usaor.net) wrote:

>I completed writing an externally called date subroutine that works real
>neat on the AS400 using RPG (I am going to be writing an entire library
>full of them).

Tim, you're re-inventing the wheel. Whatever routines you write, and
however cool the code, I guarantee you they've all been done many, many
times before. Between March and June 1990 News/400 published a series of
articles by Paul Conte and Sarah Peters entitled "The Last Date Routines
You'll Ever Need". These provided code for just about everything you
could want to do with dates from 1/1/1 to 12/31/9999, and even took the
missing days from the Gregorian calendar reform into account. I strongly
advise you to take a look at these before you spend much more of your
valuable time on this project.

Dave Kahn - TCO, Tengiz, Kazakstan
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         dkahn@cix.compulink.co.uk  (from  October 1st)

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