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Bob,I may have missed it in the thread somewhere, but I would like a clarification as regards Date data types.
My understanding is that the date is stored on disk in a binary format, and that it retains the same value regardless of the what DATFMT's value is. That is, one program would have DATFMT(*ISO) and another program could have DATFMT(*USA) against the same table and that it is merely the presentation, say on a report or display, that differs.
That, at least, seems to be the case from what I have read and from personal experience. Corrections to ambiguities and/or errors in the above are welcomed.
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Bob Cozzi wrote:
There are many ways to do this.
On is to call the QWCCVTDT API. This gives you the most flexibility.
Another you can use a bunch of nested built-in functions, similar to the
following:
YYMMDD = %Dec(%date(CCYYMMDD: *ISO0):*YMD);
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