RE: Date fields and moving from yyyymmdd to mmddyy

Booth wrote:

>I think what irritates me most though is that we can 
>not use the new solution to move an 8-digit date to 
>a 6-digit date outside the 40-39 window.  

Wow, am I a PITA today!  :-)  I never use *MDY or other "6-digit dates."  To
me, they aren't dates at all (because of the inherent window limitations).
I store the dates in the database as *ISO and convert to a 6 digit format
for display/print using a data structure and a subroutine / procedure to
convert from the date datatype to numeric.  This way, I get the utility of
true date datatype without the window hassle for displaying truncated
(6-digit) dates.  Of course, many users are getting accustomed to seeing
2000-02-11 instead of 2/11/00...

DRealDate         DS                                    
D ISODate                         D   DATFMT(*ISO)
D   ISOCC                        2  0 Overlay(ISODate:1)
D   ISOYY                        2  0 Overlay(ISODate:3)
D   ISOCCYY                      4  0 Overlay(ISODate:1)
D   ISOMM                        2  0 Overlay(ISODate:6)
D   ISODD                        2  0 Overlay(ISODate:9)

D DsplyDate       ds                                     
D  DSPDate                       6S 0 inz                
D   DSPMM                        2  0 Overlay(DSPDate:1) 
D   DSPDD                        2  0 Overlay(DSPDate:3) 
D   DSPYY                        2  0 Overlay(DSPDate:5) 

 * Tinker date for display                 
C                   Eval      DSPMM = ISOMM
C                   Eval      DSPDD = ISODD
C                   Eval      DSPYY = ISOYY
C     DSPDate       dsply

Buck Calabro
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