Re: Time Math in RPGLE

[Anton Gombkötö <Gombkoetoe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm sorry,

after having another look (with a bit more time this time :-),
i found out the same. (V4R2)

I did some testing on these things about 2 years ago,
either i'm not able to fundle the things together now or my brain cells are 
doing a bad job and serve me with memories that don't work.

At least i do not understand it.

One should at least be able to substract a timestamp from another giving 
the result to a third timestamp. (Which can hold the entire difference 
between 01-01-0001 and today)

Sorry for talking nonsense,

-20 Euro
:-(


At 10:08 31.07.00 -0500, you wrote:

>On my system (V3R2) it tells me that I need a duration entry in factor
>two when I try to key this in.  This implies to me that (at least at V3R2)
>you can't subtract two timestamps to get a time.
>
>Also, what would it do if the timestamps were over a day apart?  Wouldnt
>that cause a "receiver value is too small to hold result"?
>
>
>
>On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Anton [iso-8859-1] Gombkötö wrote:
>
> > >Timestamps are data type "Z".  As far as I know, there isn't a direct way
> > >to get "hours and minutes" between two timestamps
> >
> > Oh, yes!
> >
> > The result field of SUBDUR just has to be a time field!
> >
> > C    TimeStampTo   SUBDUR   TimeStampFrom     TimeField
> >
> > 0.02 Euro
> >
> > Anton Gombkötö
> >
>
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