Re: JD Edwards Dates

["Carl Galgano" <cgalgano@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There is a server program , I think it is X0028 to convert the dates between
the different formats.  I have found the julian dates easy to work with and
they are much better suited for doing date arithmetic.
Carl Galgano
EDI Consulting Services, Inc.
http://cgalgano.home.mindspring.com
mailto://cgalgano@ediconsulting.com
(770) 422-2995

-----Original Message-----
From: mcrump@ballfoster.com <mcrump@ballfoster.com>
To: midrange-l@midrange.com <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Date: Thursday, October 15, 1998 1:01 PM
Subject: JD Edwards Dates


|Somewhere along the line I must not be living right because I seem to be
|paying for it now...
|
|We are in the process of upgrading from JDE A6.2 to A7.3.  We just came
|across the documentation for date storage.  Historically, JDE has stored
|stuff in Gregorian format in four seperate fields DD, MM, CC, and YY.
|
|Now in 7.3 all dates are being changed to 'Julian'.  The format is XYYJLN
|where X is a centery flag(0 = 19, 1 = 20), YY is year, and JLN is the
|Julian day within a year.
|
|According to their documentation, and I quote, 'Julian date processing
|allows for the use of a single field, eases manipulation, sorting, and
|calculation of dates'.
|
|I'm real frustrated because we have to change a lot of access points.
|Multiple systems, DDM files, modifications, and query tools.  Am I missing
|the boat or does this change make sense.......besides benefiting JDE?
|
|Respectfully but pretty ______ off,
|
|Mike
|
|
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