Getting the Date & Time from a Timestamp -Reply

Joe,

I'm assuming you are using ILE RPG, so look in the ILE RPG/400 Reference 
section 4.456.  You can define a field in ILE as time, date, or datetimestamp 
and then use the move command to extract pieces of the field. 




>>> Joe Teff <jteff19@idt.net> 12/21/98 10:32pm >>>
I have a case where I need to add a variable number of minutes to
a time and return the new time. Because this could go past midnight,
a Timestamp is a perfect solution. I can add a number of minutes to
it and it will handle the date and time for me. The challenge is to get
the date and time from it. It would be nice to do it either of the
following ways:

 C  *MDY  Move timestamp   date  6 0
 C  *HMS  Move timestamp   time  6 0

- or -

 C     Extrct timestamp:*date date  6 0
 C     Extrct timestamp:*time time  6 0

Neither of these methods work. Is there an easy way to extract the date
and time from a timestamp? I can't seem to find one.

Joe Teff

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