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I'll second that. 99% of the time iDate is perfect. If it's not, it's always been either weird one off things like importing legacy data, or figuring out the most popular charge code for each day of the week. Thankfully all our original date fields are in 8.0 fields in ccyymmdd format. iDate just works for those.

On Wed, 2020-11-18 at 03:07 -0500, John Yeung wrote:

On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 7:04 PM Alan Campin <

<mailto:alan0307d@xxxxxxxxx>

alan0307d@xxxxxxxxx

wrote:


Pray tell, what does iDate not support that I need to add?


You don't need to add anything.


Personally, I think it might even be worth more to convert the docs

from RTF to something else, like PDF or HTML, than to do any more work

on the code. (That applies not just to iDate.)


But since you're asking, the thing that would probably be of the most

use where I work is something that accepts four 2-digit parameters,

one each for CC, YY, MM, and DD.


Another thing that might be handy for some people is Excel dates. That

would fit nicely into your existing interface.


More fundamentally though, when I said there are things iDate doesn't

handle, what I really meant was (1) pieces of information which aren't

complete dates, such as the month name, or the day of the week, or the

ISO week number, or whether a given date happens to be Easter; and (2)

programmers who are uncomfortable with SQL or service programs, or for

whatever reason just want to be able to use CHAIN or a READ loop and

get what they need. A date file can accommodate all those quite

easily.


Granted, some of (1) can be achieved using the functions that come

with SQL or RPG once you have a proper date, and it's certainly

debatable whether it's a good idea to enable (2). I have no qualms

whatsoever recommending iDate or indeed any of your other packages.


John Y.



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