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  3. February 2007

RE: Date conversion technique, alpha to Numeric

From: Booth Martin

This blows my mind.  You are telling us that IBM, post-Y2K, is using a
mmddyy 6 figure date?


No, IBM stores date fields as 4-byte binary numbers.  However, you are
allowed to specify the format returned to someone reading the file.  This is
the DATFMT keyword on the field definition.  During a read, as the OS is
filling the buffer with the data from the file, it converts from the 4-byte
binary value to whatever format you specified in the field definition.

Joe

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