Re: L-date field to *mdy

[Dave Shaw <dshaw1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: boothm@ibm.net <boothm@ibm.net>


>Jon's reply of   "If  date <>*loval" was the answer.  That worked just
fine.  You hit right on the nubbin of the problem John.  The default date in
an l-date field is 0001-01-01 which of course is well outside the 1940-2039
window.
>
>I still am unsure what happens though if a date is outside the 1940-2039
window, but not *loval.  I still don't know how to test for that situation.

Untested notion off the top of my head (but I'm sure it will work :):

If you want to see if a date is before 1940-01-01, put a comparison date
field in your program, initialize it to that value, and just do a compare.
I'll bet you can extrapolate this for greater than 2030-12-31, right?

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Dave Shaw, General Nutrition, Greenville, SC (just down the road from BMW -
Bubba Makes Wheels :)
The opinions expressed may not be my employer's unless I'm sufficiently
persuasive...



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