Re: Getting the Date & Time from a Timestamp

Joe,

if you want to stick to RPGIV date-time features then most elegant way I
found is:
   
c              MOVE        TIMESTAMP        DATE_TYPE_VAR
c              MOVE        TIMESTAMP        TIME_TYPE_VAR
        that would extract date and time from timestamp into date and time
type variables
c    *YMD      MOVE        DATE_TYPE_VAR    DATE_NUMERIC_VAR
c    *HMS      MOVE        TIME_TYPE_VAR    TIME_NUMERIC_VAR
        you have your date and time in numeric (6 long) variables


Hope you like it. I couldn't wait to move to RPGIV and get rid of DS based
date arithmetic.
 
Vanya Jovic,
Canada


On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Joe Teff wrote:

> 
> 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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