RE: Converting from %date() to numeric

["Bob Cozzi" <cozzi@xxxxxxxxx>]

Buck,
Amen!!!!


-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Buck Calabro
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 8:19 AM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Converting from %date() to numeric

> It just seems to me that hardcoding 19000000
> is a bad idea when you can easily get that
> information from the system. If you ever need
> to handle dates later than 2899 (not that that's
> very likely) you'll have to change every single
> program, just like we did with Y2K.

Astronomy applications deal with dates like this.  It's a hobby, and
I'm an RPG programmer so I do astronomy in RPG.    :-) :-)  Aside from
that bit of useless drivel, it's generally not a good practice to hard
code any magic numbers.  The sanity you save by finding alternatives
could be your own!
  --buck



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