Re: Date manipulation in CL

[Wayne McAlpine <wayne.mcalpine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You can also use the CEE api's to do date arithmetic.

Douglas Palme wrote:
> I have been searching google for some info on how to manipulate dates in CL
> but am coming up somewhat shorthanded.  Specifically, I am looking to
> extract the current system date, subtract a number of days to get a new date
> and then convert it to a string with the century..
>
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> Similar to the following:
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> Current system date: 10/26/2006
>
> Subtract 14 days: 10/12/2006
>
> Retrieve century: 06
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> Convert date: 20061012
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> I just have not been able to find much in the way of CL for this..any
> helpful links?
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> D.W.
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