Re: LONGTODATE and DATETOLONG

Just wanted to thank everyone that replied.

We are now using Scotts JDBCR4 to access the PostGreSQL database using the
options provided by Jack to create Epoch dates to be used in the selection
of data for the required date range.

The retrieved data is then written out to Excel using HSSFR4 (again thanks
Scott0 in the IFS and the DB2 SQL enables the Epoch dates to be converted
to the required date format for excel, thanks Peter Dow.

The invoicing process then attaches the Excel with the Invoice PDF and
Emails both to the required recipient.

This has effectively taken a two plus day, very manual process to a two
minute task at end of month.

Accounts are a happy team.

The Midrange team are awesome!!!

Cheers

Don





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Date: 31/05/2023 08:01 AM
Subject: Re: LONGTODATE and DATETOLONG
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Don,

Would these be of any help?

https://www.candidjava.com/tutorial/java-program-to-convert-long-to-date-object-and-date-object-to-long/


https://www.roseindia.net/java/java-conversion/LongToDate.shtml

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to8tI5A_k9A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez96SE72D74

??

/DR2

On 2023-05-29 23:57, Don Brown via MIDRANGE-L wrote:

We need to process data from a non DB2 source that will be loaded into

DB2

on IBMi

The dates are stored in a long format and my google skills are failing

on

finding how to convert.

I can find a unix site that will convert it for me but not how to do it

as

the end requirement will be to do it in RPG

For testing we are using DBeaver to access the PostGre SQL database and
while it appears from the sample that there should be functions to do

this

we just get an error that the function does not exist.

Here s an example of the date

Database value: 1680762720000

This represents the following

GMT: Thursday, April 6, 2023 6:32:00 AM
local time: Thursday, April 6, 2023 4:32:00 PM GMT+10:00

I would be happy with just a standard time stamp like 06-04-2023

16:32:00

Thank you for any assistance provided.

Cheers

Don

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