RE: Retreiving system date in USA format

["Christen, Duane J." <dchristen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Douglas;

As far back as V3R6 you can initialize any date, time, or timestamp data
type with the TIME opcode:

Dmydate  S      D 

C               Time    today

There are "better/newer" initilization capabilities depending on which
version of OS/400 you are on.

 
You do not need to specify a datfmt in the rpg program, in the display file
you do. SDA does not understand placing date/time data types, so I place a
10A field where I want my date to show up and then edit the display file
source an modify the 10A field like this:

A               TODAY           L  O  2 73DATFMT(*USA)

You can do the same with Time and Timestamp fields also.

Duane

 



-----Original Message-----
From: Douglas W. Palme [mailto:dpalme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
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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