Re: *DTS to Timestamp

On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Jim Langston wrote:

> Thanks, this is close to what I wrote, but I called it DTSToStamp and
> it first calls QWCCVTDT to convert it then I do the move and return an 
> RPG time stamp.
> 
> Just what is CEELOCT doing?  About the same thing as CWCCVTDT?  DTS
> is an 8 byte field, but your peGregor is a 17 byte field, the same
> format that CWCCVTDT comes out with with *YYMD format.

CEELOCT gets the local time from the system clock.  Its in the "ILE CEE
APIs" manual.  The only reason I used it is because CEELOCT is bindable,
and only retrieves the time, and therefore it should be faster than 
QWCCVTDT...  I was using it to time things to the millisecond, so speed
was important.

The manual states:
  output_Gregorian (output) 
     A 17-byte character string in the form YYYYMMDDHHMISS999 representing
     local year, month, day, hour, minute, second, and millisecond. 

> 
> I was just hoping there was something I was overlooking and that it was
> very easy to convert between the two without moves.  Guess not.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jim Langston
> 

No, like I said... I'd like to see a *DTS factor one for the MOVE
operating with timestamp fields...   but for today's program, you'll
have to use the DS.


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