Re: Numeric to Date Field

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

%DATE{(expression{:date-format})}
%DATE converts the value of the expression from character, numeric, or
timestamp data to type date. The converted value remains unchanged,
but is returned as a date.

hthdte = %date(MRPDATE:*ISO);

Charles

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 1:26 PM, <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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