RE: ISO Dates

["Art Tostaine, Jr." <art@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

1.      We use MAPVAL to change values on screen.  I believe it's something
like this:
        MAPVAL(('0001-01-01') *BLANKS)
        MAPVAL(('1940-01-01') *BLANKS)

2.      Always use DFT keyword for all date fields to avoid this.

3.      We use date fields on all screens with above MAPVAL.

4.      I think Midrange Computing's current issue describes using NULL date
values.

Art Tostaine, Jr.
CCA, Inc.
Parlin, NJ  08859


> -----Original Message-----
> >Hello to all!
>
> >I have looked thru the archives and could not find an answer
> >We have decided on all new developement to use ISO dates.
> The programmer
> >who is working on the first implementation of this has ran into some
> >problems.  It is his contention that:
>
> >1.  If you define a date with type L on the screen.  This
> field may not
> >be left blank and the users must enter 0001-01-01.
>
> >2.  Doing a cpyf if the field is blank, it is initialized to
> the current
> >date.
>
> >3.  We will need to define dates on the screen a 8,0 and within the
> >program do the date validation manually and handle 0 and
> 0001-01-01.

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