Re: Date question

One needs to understand that a date field, in and of itself, has no format. 
When you read the date you have to define the format you want.   There are
several ways to define the retrieved values from a date field.
 
In the case you ask for, the easiest is probably:

MYDATE         S           L         DATFMT(*USA) INZ (*SYS)

And then the valus is set; no need for the eval statement.


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Booth Martin
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-------Original Message-------
 
From: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Date: 10/10/05 11:19:36
To: RPG Group
Subject: Date question
 
I am wondering if it would be possible to pull in the system date into a
*USA format by defining the variable as a date with the DATFMT(*USA) and
then using an eval statement similar to the following:
 
MYDATE         S           L         DATFMT(*USA)
 
EVAL   MYDATE = %date(%date:*USA)
 
 
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