Re: Date formats (was Frank Doherty will be back on Tuesday (all being well))

Jon,

"some countries"? How about "just about all". MDY is such an unusual
format that in IBM date terms the four digit year version is
designated as *USA!

Well, just trying to be courteous with my American colleagues :-)

Just curious, Would you care to elaborate on that conversion method?

Thanks,

Luis Rodriguez
IBM Certified Systems Expert — eServer i5 iSeries


On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"some countries"? How about "just about all". MDY is such an unusual
format that in IBM date terms the four digit year version is
designated as *USA!

When I was working on IBM's Y2K offerings the contractor that produced
the tool did not originally include an MDY version as they had never
heard of it. As a result (and luckily for them) they had never
encountered the idiotic multiply by 10000.01 conversion method either.


Jon Paris

www.Partner400.com <http://www.partner400.com/>
www.SystemiDeveloper.com <http://www.systemideveloper.com/>



On Dec 14, 2009, at 12:23 PM, rpg400-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

In some countries, the date order is DD/MM/YYYY, instead of MM/DD/
YYYY as is
the custom in th US.

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