RE: Date data type question

["Goodbar, Loyd (AFS-Water Valley)" <LGoodbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I worked around it by moving the numeric date to *USA numeric format and
converting from there. (I must use existing databases, so can't change
the date format in the database.) Everything's working great! (FYI, I
always stipulate *ISO dates in my applications.)

Thanks!
Loyd Goodbar

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hans Boldt [SMTP:boldt@ca.ibm.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 08, 1998 12:29 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: Date data type question
> 
> Loyd Goodbar wrote:
> >I'm reengineering an application in RPG/IV, and I am using date data
> >types extensively. A big problem I'm having is processing birth
> dates.
> >Many people I'm processing have birth dates before 1940, so I get the
> >error "The year portion of a Date or Timestamp value is not in the
> range
> >1940 to 2039." Is there anything I can do to use these dates with the
> >date data type or must I still use a numeric format? Running V3R7.
> 
> Lose those 2 digits years.  Use DATFMT(*ISO).
> 
> Cheers!  Hans
> 
> Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com
> 
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