RE: Finding the Elapsed time between two date fields

I believe you will need to use SUBDUR to find out the number of seconds and
then convert that to hours and minutes by dividing.

Albert York                          

        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Andy Hautamaki [SMTP:ahautamaki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
        Sent:   Monday, March 31, 2003 9:57 AM
        To:     RPG400-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
        Subject:        Finding the Elapsed time between two date fields

        I have two date fields *MDY with these values. '18:09:04' and
'16:26:57'.
        All I want to do is find the total elapsed time in hours,minutes and
seconds
        between them.

        I'm  using the SUBDUR like this;

        EndTime    SUBDUR    StartTime    Hour:*H
        EndTime    SUBDUR    StartTime    Minute:*MN
        EndTime    SUBDUR    StartTime    Second:*S

        Hour,Minute and second are part of a  6,0 data structure. When I put
my
        program in debug my 'elapsed' variable contains 010227. I suspect
its
        because of negatives I'm getting the minutes and seconds the way I
am.

        What am I missing here? (Should I be doing this differently then
SUBDUR?)

        Andy










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