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

Look at the Convert Date and Time Format (QWCCVTDT) API in the OS/400 
miscellaneous APIs book.  It's very easy to convert to a number of useful 
formats.

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Jon A. Erickson - Viking Industries, Inc.
jonerickson@vikingindustries.com
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-----Original Message-----
From:   Tony Smithurst [SMTP:TonyS@tbsa.co.za]
Sent:   Monday, February 16, 1998 12:42 AM
To:     RPG/400 Mailing List RPG/400
Subject:        Conversion of Date/Time stamp Format (*DTS) from system messages

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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