RE: converting system date to integer

Douglas,

I'm not sure what you feel the issue is with using MOVE, I just ran a test
program and here are the results:

H DFTACTGRP(*NO)                                                           
H BNDDIR('XTOOLS/XTOOLS') OPTION(*NODEBUGIO:*SRCSTMT)                      
H ACTGRP(*NEW)                                                             
                                                                           
 /copy xtools/qcpysrc,dates                                                
 /copy xtools/qcpysrc,utils                                                
                                                                           
D SysDate         S               D   Inz(*SYS)                            
D date6m          s              6S 0                                      
D date6x          s              6S 0                                      
                                                                           
C     *MDY          MOVE      SysDate       date6M                         
C                   eval      date6x = DateToDec(SysDate:'*MDY')           
C                   callp     WrtJoblog('MOVE=%s  xTools=%s':%char(date6m):
C                                                         %char(date6x))   
C                   eval      *INLR = *ON                                  
****************** End of source ********************************************
Output:

> call testdt              
   MOVE=41406  xTools=41406

Obviously the results are identical.
A Zoned(6,0) ends up with the system date in it.
Using xTools or the MOVE opcode, you end up with the same results.
(FYI, I did the xTools function because I wanted something in free format that
would world consistently on V5R1 and later without all the nested/nested/nested
built-ins.)

-Bob Cozzi
www.RPGxTools.com
RPG xTools - Enjoy programming again.

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Douglas W. Palme
Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 8:10 AM
To: RPG Group
Subject: converting system date to integer

I am in need of converting a system date to a six digit numeric....

So if the system date is say 04/14/06 I need to convert it to a 041406 
numeric type...

I thought about doing it by using a move statement with *MDY in factor one 
but I don't believe that will work as I would have to use 10 digits for the 
date.

the problem is we have some display files that there is not enough room to 
allow for a four digit year and I am not prepared at this time to re-write 
the entire file.

Suggestions or hints?


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