Re: TIMESTAMP and rolling time value

On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Simon Coulter wrote:
>
> Hello All,
> 
> It used to be the case that adding a time duration greater than 24 hours to 
> a timestamp data type would NOT roll the date portion of the timestamp.
> 
> I have recently discovered that this is no longer true.  Does anyone 
> remember when this change occurred?
> 

Hello Simon,

The following piece of code was written/compiled/tested on V3R2 on
my CISC machine.   It adds 31 years worth of seconds to a timestamp,
successfully changing the date from a day in 1970 to the current date.

So, either I didn't understand your question, or it worked at least as
far back as V3R2.


     D Epoch           S               Z   INZ(z'1970-01-01-00.00.00.000000')
     D Current         S               Z

     D secs            S             10U 0

     D time            PR              *   ExtProc('time')
     D   timeptr                       *   value
 
      ** note that the time displayed here is GMT, it is not
      **  adjusted for your timezone.
     c                   callp     time(%addr(secs))
     c     Epoch         adddur    secs:*S       Current
     c                   dsply                   Current

     c                   eval      *inlr = *on


> On VRM440 (and code running on 440 but compiled for 420) adding a duration 
> (either positive or negative) to a timestamp behaves the way one would 
> expect by rolling the date portion appropriately.  I'm positve that earlier 
> releases did not do that.
> 
> Regards,
> Simon Coulter.
> 



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