RE: Dateformat trouble with time.

[Eduard Sluis <eduard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks to all of you.
Now I know that I should have expected it.
To get to a solution I have played around a bit to find a suitable solution.
Changing DATEDIT into DATFMT did not work (the job does what it likes best).
So on to the TRUE date/time fields.
Much to my surprise I got the next result??
 
Code:
C                   TIME                    TODAY  
C     *YMD          MOVE      TODAY         $H08N0 
 
Debug:
> EVAL TODAY          
  TODAY = '2005-01-14'
> EVAL $H08N0         
  $H08N0 = 00050114.  
 
Interesting?
 
Eduard.

Bob Cozzi <cozzi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
You should be storing the date/time in true date/time variables not the old
14-digit zoned numeric fields.
That way you don't care what the format is.
D Today S D
D rightNow S T

C TIME Today
C Time RightNow

Then you can MOVE those values into non-date or non-time fields using the
MOVE opcode and thereby specify the resulting formats in Factor 1 of the
MOVE.

C *YMD MOVE Today H08N0

-Bob Cozzi


-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Eduard Sluis
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 10:20 AM
To: RPG400-L Midrange
Subject: Dateformat trouble with time.

Dear all,

Much to my disgust I have encountered the following problem with TIME.
In indefinite running batchjobs (servers) we use the TIME to get to the
correct date independent of the actual jobdate.
We assumed that the format we would get the date part of the time in would
comply with the H DATEDIT(*YMD) header specification we use in all our
programs.

Recently we discovered that this is not the case and the dateformat is in
the *SYSVAL format.
So when the *SYSVAL is *DMY we get as time: $H14N0 = 17195413012005.
When the *SYSVAL is *YMD we get as time : $H14N0 = 11503120050114.

Should I have expected this??

Kind regards,
Eduard Sluis.


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