Re: Day of the week

["David Morris" <dmorris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

MB,

This may very well be the perfect RPG date routine, but how do you know 
this works?  Will it have problems if converted to RPGIV?  Over the years I 
have come across at least three variations of this routine.  I usually was 
made aware of their existence when they failed or the code that used them 
failed.  I have found bugs in some of them.  For example, DBASE used a 
similar routine with 30.57 as the multiplier.  News/400 published a utility in 
the 
early 90's that used 30.6001.  You have used 30.6.  I would opt for the RPGIV 
solution because I believe the built-in date routines are tested and work.

David Morris

>>> MBOCEANSIDE@postoffice.worldnet.att.net 12/09/99 05:08PM >>>
Klein Ron wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Since we have a discusion going about the days of the month, how about a
> easy routine to find the day of the week?  Any one have a solution?

There are a number of ways to do this: but the routine I was looking for
also does this as a side benefit...

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