Re: Y2.1K Compliance

Hi Dan,

I don't know the answer to your question, unless it's "You don't."

I found those dates in the help for the QCENTURY system value.

Regards,
Peter Dow
Dow Software Services, Inc.
909 425-0194 voice
909 425-0196 fax

----- Original Message -----
From: <D.BALE@handleman.com>
To: <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 6:14 AM
Subject: Re: Y2.1K Compliance


> >it currently depends on the setting of the QCENTURY system
> >value, where 0 = 1928-1999 and 1 = 2000-2053.
>
> I haven't followed this thread closely and, fortunately, I work in a shop
that
> started using 8-digit dates ten years ago.  But the above quote caught my
eye.
>  How do you represent May 1, 1925 using CYYMMDD?  May 1, 2054?  Why
wouldn't a
> century digit of 0 cover all the years 1900-1999?  And so on?
>
> Dan Bale
> IT - AS/400
> Handleman Company
> 248-362-4400  Ext. 4952
>
> -------------------------- Original Message --------------------------
> Hi Jim,
>
> I think I misspoke on my previous email. As you say, windowing is only
with
> 6-digit dates; I was thinking of what would happen if IBM changed what the
> "c" in cyymmdd represents. As I understand it, it currently depends on the
> setting of the QCENTURY system value, where 0 = 1928-1999 and 1 =
2000-2053.
> If they decided that 0 = 1929-1999, then anyone storing dates in cyymmdd
> format might have a problem. However, I don't see that as a likely
scenario.
>
> No, I use native dates when possible, or whatever the customer/vendor
> software I happen to be working with is using. Still, the cyymmdd date is
> what IBM uses to pass from a command to the command processing program
when
> a parameter is defined as a *DATE parameter. I use CVTDAT to convert such
a
> date to an 8-digit date, so it's up to IBM to be consistent in how they
> convert dates with CVTDAT.
>
> Regards,
> Peter Dow
> Dow Software Services, Inc.
> 909 425-0194 voice
> 909 425-0196 fax
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