Re: Dumb date question

["James W. Kilgore" <qappdsn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim,

Try UDATE it's the job date, not the system date though.  Also, you may isolate 
the date
portion of the TIME opcode.

Jim Langston wrote:

> V3R7M0 RPG IV
>
> Yes, I know there are now such things as dumb questions, but I think
> this one is an exception <g>
>
> I'm writing a new program, that has a display screen that the users are to 
>input
> values on, one of these is an As Of Date.  Wanting the users to input the 
>value
> as MM/DD/YY I set it up as zoned 6,0 with a date format (Y).  Before I show
> the screen I want to initialize the date to today's date.
>
> C                   Eval      ParmAsOf   = *Date
>
> Well, this bombs out, I guess because *Date is a 8,0 field (MMDDCCYY I think).
>

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