Re: Calculate the 20th of next month

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Why not:

 myDate = %date() + %months(1)
 %day(myDate) =  20

or

 myDate = %date() + %months(1)
 myDate =  %subdt(20: *days)

?  Is that the same thing?


Charles Wilt wrote:
> Birgitta,
>
> You need to refer back to Rob's post.
>
> He throwing out the idea of a DCR to allow %Month(), %Day() to be on
> the right hand side.
>
> Basically a "set the xxxx of this date to yyyyy"
>
> %day('2009-10-06') = 20; would result in '2009-10-20'
>
> I'm not sure I like the proposed solution, but I do like the idea.  It
> always seemed silly to have to jump through hoops in RPG to transform
> some date to some other explicitly defined date (first of next month,
> last day of next month, the 20th, the 15th ect.)
>
> On the other hand, that's why we have service programs right?  Not
> sure I want Barbara spending time on this one :)
>
> -Charles
>
>