Re: Source Dates

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bill, I'm at V5R1. It sorted by the raw numeric value, no consideration of 
century, so 97/05/31 preceded 03/01/09. I also tried it at V3R7, and it 
behaved the same way - no regard for century.

Regards

Vern

At 09:23 AM 1/9/2003 -0800, you wrote:
> Did something change in the OS regarding the Source Date field in Source 
> Files?
>
> I have a utility I use occassionally use that sets the source date of a 
> member based upon selection critera to a different value, eg:  set all to 
> 0 where the date is less than 021231.  This worked fine on V4R5 where it 
> would even catch the years 99 and earlier, but on V5R2 it doesn't 
> recognize that the year 02 is greater than the year 99.  I know that when 
> I went from V3R2 to V4R5, the year that was used as the logical divider 
> between 1900 and 2000 was changed, but now it looks like there isn't a 
> logical divider.
>
> If I override a source file to a specific member and then SQL that file, 
> it sorts the source date just as if there isn't any "hidden" logic behind 
> the dates.  Could someone on a release prior to V5R2 verify that it sorts 
> source dates according to the logical century?
>
> Select * from qrpglesrc sort by srcdat desc
>
> Bill