Conversion of Date/Time stamp Format (*DTS) from system messages

[bvining@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

Tony,

The Convert Date and Time Format API (QWCCVTDT), documented in the System
API Reference manual (Miscellaneous APIs chapter), will convert the *DTS
format to a variety of other formats.

I do not recommend it, but you can also fiddle with the bits by using
the high order 42 bits where the 42nd bit increments every 1024
microseconds with a base time of Aug 23 1928 12:03:06.315.  If you do
this, ignore all bits after the 42nd as they will be set in what may
appear to be an arbitrary fashion.

Bruce Vining

>
>Can anyone tell me how to easily convert the 8-byte Date/Time stamp data
>format (*DTS) from a system message's field data values into a usable form
>for ILE RPG. Or at least tell me the format of the binary code used so that
>it can be bit-twiddled.
>
>I am currently having to send it out to a CL to RTVMSG and return the text
>equivalent which I can then process in RPG, but this seems very long winded
>and is certainly inefficient.
>
>Any Ideas?
>
>Tony Smithurst  <TonyS@tbsa.co.za>
>Tibbett & Britten (SA)
>

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