AW: Re: Calculate the 20th of next month

["Birgitta Hauser" <Hauser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry I was wrong, I only read half of the message.
> > mydatefield = %date(20091031:*ISO)
> > %month(mydatefield) +=1;

MyDateField stays unchanged, i.e. it is still 20091031!
And %Month() on the left side of the equal sign is not allowed.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards

Birgitta Hauser

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Von: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Im
Auftrag von Birgitta Hauser
Gesendet: Tuesday, 06. October 2009 16:01
An: 'RPG programming on the IBM i / System i'
Betreff: AW: Re: Calculate the 20th of next month

No, 2009-11-30!

Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards

Birgitta Hauser

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Brown)
"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance." (Derek Bok)
"What is worse than training your staff and losing them? Not training them
and keeping them!"


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Von: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Im
Auftrag von Jeff Crosby
Gesendet: Tuesday, 06. October 2009 15:46
An: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Betreff: Re: Re: Calculate the 20th of next month

Or this scenario:

mydatefield = %date(20091031:*ISO)
%month(mydatefield) +=1;

Now what's in mydatefield?  2009-12-01?



On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Anwendungsentwicklung <
Anwendungsentwicklung@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> And how does it work in december?
> %month(mydatefield) = 12 --> += 1 ??? --> 13 ???
> Or will it work correctly?
>
> Susanne Finger
>
>
>
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: rob@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:rob@xxxxxxxxx]
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 6. Oktober 2009 14:43
> An: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
> Betreff: Re: Calculate the 20th of next month
>
> Anyone thought of submitting a DCR to be able to assign a date portion
> from the left side of the equation?  Like,
> %month(mydatefield) +=1;
> %day(mydatefield) = 20;
>
> Does anything else think that
> SomeDays = subdt(mydatefield:*days);
> is more cryptic than
> SomeDays = %day(mydatefield);
>
> Or are they afraid that you'll get confused between %day and the
> existing
> %days as in
> dueDate = SellDate + %days(TermDays);
>
>
>
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