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  3. October 2004

Re: Date Variables in CL

One thing I forgot about the "actual 6 month" technique in the message I
posted 2 minutes ago...  it can result in invalid dates like '20040230'
because August 30...   this is another reason not to use months, but use
days instead!


On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Scott Klement wrote:
>
>     CHGVAR VAR(&MM) VALUE(&MONTH)
>     CHGVAR VAR(&MM) VALUE(&MM - 6)
>
>     IF (&MM *LT 1) DO
>        CHGVAR VAR(&YYYY) VALUE(&YEAR)
>        CHGVAR VAR(&YYYY) VALUE(&YYYY - 1)
>        CHGVAR VAR(&YEAR) VALUE(&YYYY)
>        CHGVAR VAR(&MM)   VALUE(&MM + 12)
>     ENDDO
>
>     CHGVAR VAR(&MONTH) VALUE(&MM)
>     CHGVAR VAR(&DATE) VALUE(&YEAR *CAT &MONTH *CAT &DAY)
>

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