Re: Date conversion technique in QUERY

Carl,

 The trick we use is to create a small PF that has the date in several formats,
MMDDYY, YYMMDD, CCYYMMDD, Month DD YYYY, etc, and included our fiscal month and
year.  Populate the file with several years worth of data with a simple RPG
program. Then in the query you can now include this file and pick any format you
want.  It also helped select records for a particular fiscal period.

  HTH

 - Larry

Carl Galgano wrote:
> 
> anyone have a quick and dirty way to convert a date (6,0) in a YYMMDD format
> to a MMDDYY format for printing in a Query?  I know I can multiply by
> 100.0001, however Query thinks it knows better and won't let you chop off
> the left most 2 significant digits, which makes this technique not work.  (I
> get the dreaded +++++++++ as the output for this field).
> Surely someone has solved this little problem.
> TIA,
> Carl
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