Re: Date question

Thanks Booth, that is even better, I am still a bit unclear when you say 
that a date field has no format, isn't a standard date in *ISP format? Maybe 
I am not grasping what you are saying, but then again it would not be the 
first time I was slow on the uptake :)


On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 11:39:08 -0500 (Central Standard Time), Booth Martin 
wrote
> 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.
> 
> ---------------------------------
> Booth Martin
> http://www.martinvt.com
> ---------------------------------
> -------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)
> 
> If you bought it, it was hauled by a truck - somewhere, sometime.
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If you bought, it was hauled by a truck - somewhere, sometime.