RE: Date weirdness in RPGLE

["Bob Cozzi \(RPGIV\)" <cozzi@xxxxxxxxx>]

Barbara,
My typo, sorry. It must be the bacteria in the St. Charles High School
causing my memory issue (sorry, Local issue, probably not known outside
of this area).
Bob Cozzi
cozzi@rpgiv.com
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> Behalf Of bmorris@ca.ibm.com
> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 10:13 AM
> To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: Date weirdness in RPGLE
>
>
> From: "Bob Cozzi \(RPGIV\)" <cozzi@rpgiv.com>
> Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 07:33:58 -0500
>
> >This is an unexpected behavior I found when doing Y2k work.
> >The DATFMT keyword on the HEADER spec controls the format of *DATE.
The
> >format it uses is that of the job that's compiling the program, not
the
> >job running the program.
> > ...
>
> Bob, the DATFMT keyword does not control the format of *DATE.
> *DATE is controlled by the DATEDIT keyword.  The only thing
> that's controlled by the job date format is the format of
> the date part of a numeric result for the TIME opcode.
>
> This is not new behaviour.  RPG III works exactly the same way
> (regarding the H spec and the TIME opcode).
>
> (The DATFMT keyword controls the default type for date fields.)
>
> Barbara Morris
>
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