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  3. March 2006

Re: Bug in IBM Date Routies %month

Hi Praveen,
Actually, that's not a bug, it's a problem with intermediate values. When you add 1 month to 2006-01-31, what do you get? 2006-02-31 is not a valid date; instead you get 2006-02-28 (see the manual). When you then add 1 month to that, you get 2006-03-28. Date arithmetic is tricky... 

hth,

Peter Dow
Dow Software Services, Inc.
909 793-9050

praveen gunda wrote:

I found the following bug with IBM Date rountines... Was there a fix for
this?


     Ddate1            s               d   datfmt(*ymd)
      /Free
       cymd = 20060131;
       date1 = %date(cymd:*ISO);
       dsply %char( (date1+%months(2)):*iso );
       dsply %char( (date1+%months(1)+%months(1)) :*iso);
     /End-Free


Heres' the output:

 DSPLY  2006-03-31
 DSPLY  2006-03-28

Shouldn't it be 2006-03-31 both the times.

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