RE: Date fields and moving from yyyymmdd to mmddyy

The only alternative I could suggest is moving *USA to 8 0 field, then
manipulate ccyy for 8 char field and/or use edit code.  Nothing clean and
simple though.

Those pesky windows.....

Sympathies,
Jon A. Erickson
Sr. Programmer Analyst
800.COM Inc.
1516 NW Thurman St
Portland, OR  97209-2517

Direct: 503.944.3613
Fax: 503.944.3690
Web: http://800.com


-----Original Message-----
From: boothm@earth.Goddard.edu [mailto:boothm@earth.Goddard.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 6:58 AM
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Date fields and moving from yyyymmdd to mmddyy


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.  Users understand birthdays.  If they see a birthday of 3/31/22 on 
their screen they know it isn't 2022.    I have to go back and check stuff 
but for the moment it looks to me like I will be moving the 8-digit date 
to a 6-digit date first.  What I am after is the 8-character field with 
"/"s in place, or if the date is blank, no "/"s.

_______________________
Booth Martin
boothm@earth.goddard.edu
http://www.spy.net/~booth
_______________________




"James W. Kilgore" <qappdsn@attglobal.net>
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02/08/2000 12:21 AM
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Booth,

This does create a problem for Payroll applications where an employee has 
a birth
date prior to 1940.  Right now they are turning 60 and still have some 
time to go
before retirement.


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