Re: "Date" fields

[Jeffrey Young <cooljeff913@xxxxxxxxx>]

Most places that I have been at have adopted the CCYYMMDD (20050501) date 
format for all dates.

Steve Landess <sjl_abc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Date field question...

There may be a few exceptions, but in JDE all date fields are generally defined 
as a 6-digit julian format - 105001, for example, indicates 1-January-2005. 
099001 indicates 1-January-1999. (The '1' prefix indicates that the date is in 
the 21st century, a '0' prefix indicates 20th century).

Let's say you're defining a date/timestamp field (14,0 Zoned) -or- a date field 
(8,0 Zoned) in a non-JDE data base (DB2). Is our industry, is there a standard 
for populating these types of field? I have an idea as to how they should be 
populated, but would like another's opinion. 

Please do not confuse my question with the "date" data type that is now 
available. I believe that the customer's requirement is to have this field 
defined as a numeric field...

Regards,

Steve


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Jeff Young 
Dynax Solutions, Inc.
IBM  Certified Systems Exper - iSeries Technical Solutions V5R2 
  
 
 




                
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