Re: %date not evaluating in DOW as "I" would expect -- RPG400-L

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Subject: Re: %date not evaluating in DOW as "I" would expect
From: Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:22:59 -0500
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What are you suggesting, Booth? That his zoned decimal date isn't really in YYYYMMDD format? He says it contains 20091016 -- if it's not in YYYYMMDD format, wouldn't that cause the program to generate an exception?

I guess I don't follow your logic, Booth.

Booth Martin wrote:

I've been wondering if he could just leave the *iso parm off the %date(bif) (unless he has set a DATFMT keyword) and see if that works as he expects?

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