RE: Date question

Booth,

I started to send a reply similar to yours, it's not that a date field
has no format (obviously it has to have some internal format) but more
like there's a single format and DATFMT controls how one interacts with
the date variable.

That is how the DB itself handles dates, there's one single internal
format used no matter what the DATFMT is specified on the DDS.

However, reading through the RPG manual, it seems RPG may be different.
>From the manual:
"The default internal format for date variables is *ISO. This default
internal format can be overridden globally by the control specification
keyword DATFMT and individually by the definition specification keyword
DATFMT."


Perhaps Scott or Barbara can clarify.

Charles
  

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Booth Martin
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 12:39 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: 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

http://www.martinvt.com

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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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