Re: DATFMT

[Pete Hall <peteh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 15:09 07/23/98 -0400, David Prowak wrote:
>Paul,
>Maybe I'm missing the point here, but this from the ILE RPG/400 Reference
>Manual:
>
>3.2.2.7 DATFMT(fmt{separator})
> 
>The DATFMT keyword specifies the internal date format for date literals and
>the default internal format for date fields within the program.  You can
>specify a different internal date format for a particular field by
>specifying the format with the DATFMT keyword on the definition
>specification for that field.
> 
>Doesn't this say that I should be able to define a standalone field, with a
>date format
>other then that of the default format for this module?

Yes it does. It does not however, say anything about literals, which must be in 
the default date format.

Pete Hall
peteh@inwave.com 
http://www.inwave.com/~peteh/

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