Re: CVTDAT Date limits

Unfortunately, if you're defining commands with parameters of type *DATE, "When it is passed to the command processing program, it is always passed in the format Cyymmdd..." (from the PARM keyword help text).

I supposed you could use type *CHAR and write a validity checking program to go with it, but so far for me it hasn't been worth the effort.

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On 11/12/2015 9:06 AM, John Yeung wrote:

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 11:45 AM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[...] Otherwise, valid dates are in the range
of August 24, 1928, to May 9, 2071.

Now why it can only convert *YYMD from 20710509 into *CYMD 1710509 and not
*YYMD 20710510 into *CYMD 1710510 escapes me.

I don't understand either. My first guess was that the date range
would be either 32768 days (or slightly less) or 65536 days (or
slightly less). But it's actually 52124 days, inclusive of the
endpoints.

For what it's worth, the center of that date range is the dividing
line between December 31, 1999 and January 1, 2000.

I think I would avoid this crap and start using 'real' date columns.

I agree that it's crap. In fact, as far as I'm concerned, *CYMD is
even crappier than formats with 2-digit years.

John Y.