RE: Date range

["Doug Palme" <dpalme@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I looked at the PDF but did not find anything....I guess I didn't look in
the right place....thanks for the assistance Michael.


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On Behalf Of Michael Ryan
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 8:38 AM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: Date range

Our friend Mr. Manual can!

Number of Digits in Year                                         Range of
Years
2 (*YMD, *DMY, *MDY, *JUL)                            1940 to 2039
3 (*CYMD, *CDMY, *CMDY)                               1900 to 2899
4 (*ISO, *USA, *EUR, *JIS, *LONGJUL)             0001 to 9999


On 12/7/06, Douglas Palme <dpalme@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Can someone tell me what the max range is for a MDY date? IE: 1900 - 2020
>
>
>
> Some of our programs still use six digit dates (Yes, I know we should be
> converting them but that's not my decision and considering the number of
> programs involved it would take a huge amount of time and resources) and I
> need to trap for max dates that are allowable in a *USA format but are
> invalid for a *MDY
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