Re: Numeric to Date Field

[James Perkins <jrperkinsjr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Assuming MRPDate is CYYMMDD and new date is the same format.

newDate = %dec(%date(MRPDate : *cymd) + %days(60) : *cymd);

--
James R. Perkins


On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:26, <sjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Our MRP database stores dates in CYYMMDD as numeric.  In the past we did
> this:
>
>     C                   Eval      Date8 = MRPDate
>     C                   Move      Date8         Hthdte
>     C                   Adddur    60:*Days      Hthdte
>     C                   Move      Hthdte        Date8
>     C                   Eval      Newdte = Date8
>
> I have recently been using Free format and can not find a solution using
> free.
>
> I searched the archives & could only find taking a date field to numeric,
> not numeric to a date field.
>
> Thanks
>
> Steve Jones
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