RE: Date Field Printing

[Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx>]

I question 'the absence of a date is stored as 0001-01-01'.  Isn't 
it stored as *null instead?  Does *null print this way?  Or is this 
the effort of picking some arbitrary date to indicate the lack thereof?





JFritz@sharperimage.com on 01/19/2000 01:43:44 PM
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I don't know if this is better, but it doesn't use indicators. 

Print a character field large enough to hold the date with separators.  If
the date is *loval, make the output field blank, otherwise move the date
into it.  You could do something similar with a numeric field and the Y edit
code.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Giusto [mailto:JGiusto@patuxent.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 9:37 AM
> To: 'RPG400-L@midrange.com'
> Subject: Date Field Printing
> 
> 

/*               SNIP                                         */

> Now the absence of a date is stored as 0001-01-01 and that's 
> what prints in
> place of what used to be nothing (or blank).  It is confusing 
> to the users
> and every time someone new sees it we have to explain it again. 
> 
> I have begun testing date fields to be printed and using 
> indicators (yuck)
> to condition the field to print or not print. 
> 
> There's got to be a better way.  Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> 
> Thank you,
>  
> 
> Joe Giusto II
> Patuxent Publishing Company
> 
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