RE: Retreiving system date in USA format

["Dane Cox" <DCox@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I usually do something like this...

D today           s               d              

C                   time                    today 
C     *mdy          move      today       today6  
C     *longjul      move      today       today7  

In your case, I think you could simply do this...
C                   time                    mydate

Also, if I remember correctly, *date and udate are the job date, not the
current system date.

Hope this helps.

Dane


-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Douglas W. Palme
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 8:17 AM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Retreiving system date in USA format

I have been attempting to figure out how to retrieve the current system
date 
and assign it to a display file, but am running into trouble.

This needs to display in *USA format.

Here is what I did:

* first declare standalone
Dmydate   s     D    datfmt(*usa)

in the C specs I had the following

eval        mydate = *date

move       mydate     ddate

I keep getting an error that the two sides of the eval do not 
match....suggestions?
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