Re: date validate

>From my understanding, to a certain extent, what you said is true. However
with a *YMD format, 060315 (todays date) is valid, but 031506 is NOT valid
(there is NO 15th month). However, again from my understanding, the L field
format *YMD of 060315 contains the same raw data value as the Lfield format
*USA of 03152006.
This can get really confusing!!!

Alan



                                                                       
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Is this statement true?   I am still having a hard time getting my mind
around the idea of an L field.

Doesn't an L field store the date any way it wants to?  Isn't the idea
of the *YMD just to inform the L field what to expect?  That the data
coming in is in YMD, so it can differentiate between January 2, 2003,
February 3, 2001, and March 1, 2002?



Fisher, Don wrote:
> You have to perform the TESTD before moving it to the date field. Since
the
> date field is in the *YMD format, any value placed in it must conform to
> that date format.
>
> Donald R. Fisher, III
> Project Manager
> Roomstore Furniture Company
> (804) 784-7600 extension 2124
> DFisher@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
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> I am getting this error cond. C
>  Date, Time or Timestamp value is not valid (C G D F).
> <clip>
>  I defined this
> D Datefield       S               D   DATFMT(*ymd)
>
> I move the date from the screen to Datefield. The date on screen is
> defined as num. 6 00.
>
> Then I do the TEST
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