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  3. June 2004

Re: Convert 6 digit Julian to mdy

MITTELHEISSER Jean Claude wrote:
> 
> Don is right. I think first digit must be century code. It is set to 0 if 
> year is from 1928 to 1999 and to 1 from 2000 to 2071. So you have only to 
> test this digit to constitute a long julian format and then to convert it to 
> mdy format.
> 

But you don't need to test this digit.  Just use %date(jul6 : *longjul)
to get a date from the 6-digit julian date.

Untested:
   eval   mdydate6 = %int(%char(%date(jul6 : *longjul) : *mdy0))

Fyi, a bit easier in V5R3:

   eval   mdydate6 = %dec(%date(jul6 : *longjul) : *mdy)

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