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Have you seen the Excel help text for dates? I'm pretty sure you're looking for a solution that adapts to the Excel date on the upload, but the explanation of their date format should allow you to come up with a program using date routines. Had I been using Client Access file transfer instead of CPYFRMPCD I would have probably gone this route. They're using serial numbers starting at January 1, 1900 or January 2, 1904. If I were converting using a program I'd just add the file value to the January date as a number of days. -Jim >From Microsoft Excel Help: How Microsoft Excel stores dates and times Microsoft Excel stores dates as sequential numbers known as serial values. Excel stores times as decimal fractions because time is considered a portion of a day. Dates and times are values and, therefore, can be added, subtracted, and included in other calculations. For example, to determine the difference between two dates, you can subtract one date from the other. You can view a date as a serial value and a time as a decimal fraction by changing the format of the cell that contains the date or time to General format. Excel supports two date systems: the 1900 and 1904 date systems. The default date system for Microsoft Excel for Windows is 1900. To change to the 1904 date system, click Options on the Tools menu, click the Calculation tab, and then select the 1904 date system check box. The following table shows the first date and the last date for each date system and the serial value associated with each date. Date system First date Last date 1900 January 1, 1900 December 31, 9999 (serial value 1) (serial value 2958465) 1904 January 2, 1904 December 31, 9999 (serial value 1) (serial value 2957003) -----Original Message----- From: Alan Novick [mailto:mida@pressmantoy.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 3:10 PM To: midrange-l@midrange.com Subject: Re: Upload Date Data from Excel Wow Jim that was a very creative solution. It would be a bit cumbersome in my situation. Our warehouse vendor is sending us a file of open orders and I want to compare for discrepancies with our order files. Several of the columns they are sending are date fields. I guess there must be documentation on how to convert that Excel number to a date but I was hoping IBM or someone else had done it for me :) Alan Novick Pressman Toy Corporation New Brunswick, NJ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Damato" <jdamato@dollargeneral.com> To: <midrange-l@midrange.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 3:46 PM Subject: RE: Upload Date Data from Excel The last time I did this I ended up concatenating the character values of the Excel DAY, MONTH, and YEAR functions into another column, and dropping the value of that string into another. I just searched, but I don't still have the spreadsheet. It took a long time to debug, but I had given up on dealing with the integer value behind the date cells, and couldn't find an easy way to translate dates into values while retaining the format. I'm sure there's a better way... -Jim James P. Damato Manager - Technical Administration Dollar General Corporation <mailto:jdamato@dollargeneral.com> -----Original Message----- From: Alan Novick [mailto:mida@pressmantoy.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 1:37 PM To: MidRange-L Subject: Upload Date Data from Excel I have an Excel spreadsheet with columns that are dates. When I upload to the AS/400 it becomes a number. Anyone know how to bring the date up? Thanks, Alan Novick Pressman Toy Corporation New Brunswick, NJ
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