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Re: CYMD dates and SQL

At 08:42 08/02/2002, Loyd Goodbar wrote:
>Our ERP application uses *CYMD formatted dates (integer 7). So when we
>select a date column using SQL, it's formatted as 1,020,802 (Aug 2, 2002).
>
>Has anyone come up with SQL procedures to convert a numeric CYMD to a real
>date, and vice versa? The archives returned no results for "cymd date sql".

  NULLIF(DATE(SUBSTR(DIGITS(DECIMAL(19000000 + CymdVal,8,0)),1,4)||'-'||
   SUBSTR(DIGITS(DECIMAL(CymdVal,7,0)),4,2)||'-'||
   SUBSTR(DIGITS(DECIMAL(CymdVal,7,0)),6,2)),'1899-12-31')

  and

  DECIMAL((YEAR(DateVal)-1900)*10000 + MONTH(DateVal)*100 + DAY(DateVal),7)


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