RE: Flipping dates in Excel spreadsheet

[Mark Walter <mwalter@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Attached is a spreadsheet with the conversion formulas.


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From:   Pete Hall [SMTP:pbhall@execpc.com]
Sent:   Monday, July 17, 2000 10:45 PM
To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject:        Re: Flipping dates in Excel spreadsheet

At 13:39 07/17/2000 , Patrick Shrader wrote:
>Has anyone created a slick formula to convert a date in CYYMMDD to MMDDYY in
>an Excel spreadsheet? I have created a number of spreadsheets that use ODBC
>to connect to legacy files. These applications use the old date (7,0) format
>and are not date fields. However, I need to manipulate the information in
>Excel like a date. So, if you have a formula or macro that will flip the
>date, I would be most appreciative.

You could convert them to actual dates in either the query, or in a view 
over the table, something like this:
   DATE(SUBSTR(DIGITS(DECIMAL(NUMDAT+19000000,8,0)),1,4)||'-'||
     SUBSTR(DIGITS(NUMDAT),4,2)||'-'||SUBSTR(DIGITS(NUMDAT),6,2))
You can do this quite easily with CREATE VIEW. I did something similar with 
views over JDE dates (Julian), and it worked just fine.


Pete Hall
pbhall@execpc.com
http://www.execpc.com/~pbhall
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