RE: Calculate the 20th of next month

["Bob P. Roche" <BRoche@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's using a date fields. IBM does the checking for us.



From:
Don <dr2@xxxxxxxx>
To:
"'RPG programming on the IBM i / System i'" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:
10/06/2009 10:57 AM
Subject:
RE: Calculate the 20th of next month
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Make sure you check for month = 13 as well... :)



-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Booth Martin
Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 11:17 AM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: Re: Calculate the 20th of next month

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