RE: LAST POST.RE: Time validations bug?? -- RPG400-L

2400 (Pronounced twenty four hundred) is used in military time to
designate midnight.

In reality, time 240000 is correct and 000000 is incorrect, but
000001 is correct and 240001 is incorrect.  I suspect that the
AS/400 will not accept 240001 as a valid time, which it is not.

This is mostly semantics, however, and most people couldn't
care less what is correct, they just know they want to use
000000 to designate midnight, or use 240000 to designate
midnight, forget what is right or wrong, do what I mean, not
what I say <g>

But, as you've apparently found, the AS/400 internally stores
midnight as 000000, and trying to enter 240000 as midnight into
system commands won't work.  This may mean, however, that these
are older commands that are still storing the times as numeric,
and not as time values (not sure, just guessing).

So, if you are storing into time variables in your programs, I
don't' think you need to worry about which way it is storing it,
it will accept either as midnight.  However, in system commands
that may, or may not, be using time variables you need to make
sure you do it in the format the command recognizes.  Myself,
I was never sure so I never submitted anything at midnight, I
would submit it at 000001 just to be sure both the system and
I knew what we were talking about.


Regards,

Jim Langston
Programmer/Analyst
Cels Enterprises, Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of Slava Zharichenko
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 11:49 AM
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject: LAST POST.RE: Time validations bug??



ok. i was wrong. valid times are from 0 to 240000.
and because of multiple If...or...or....and .. i was not getting the right
validations.
But still why 240000 is valid? i can not setup schedule jobs at 240000 some
other system function my errored out if i pass 240000 time. I guess i
should also validate it in my program comparing to 240000.
Thanks



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