Re: What is SYSTIME?

It is just somebody carving up the timestamp into bits - but it should not really be done like that in RPG IV and I'm not convinced it works.

Haven't got time to play but receiving TIME into a numeric of 14 digits would result in 6 digits of time followed by 8 digits of date. So your 6 and 6 looks wrong. Maybe it worked that way in RPG III and it was only a 6 digit date portion - I haven't coded in RPG III that for 30 years so ...

The correct way of doing it today is with the %Date/%Time/%Timestamp BIFs - depending on what format etc. you want.


Jon Paris

On Apr 13, 2021, at 5:51 PM, Alan Shore via MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi everyone
While I am making changes to an existing program - I am looking/copying code from an existing program, and I have come across something I have never seen before
SYSTIME

These are the D specs
Dsystime 12 0
D timep 6 0 Overlay(systime:1)
D datep 6 0 Overlay(systime:7)

Here is the C specs
C time systime

And later in the code, Timep and Datep are used separately to populate (numeric) fields in a file

I have tried to google SYSTIME - but the results are referencing the word system

Can anyone point me to any definition of SYSTIME and what the equivalent free form of it is?

As always, all answers gratefully accepted

Alan Shore
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