Re: Date formats (was Frank Doherty will be back on Tuesday (all being well)) -- RPG400-L

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AFAIK, We never had anything like that (or any possible equivalent for
DD/MM/YY) here in Venezuela. I think we all went the DS route...

Luis Rodriguez
IBM Certified Systems Expert — eServer i5 iSeries

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Mark S. Waterbury <mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxx

wrote:

This "trick" of using MULT to transform from YYMMDD to MMDDYY or vice
versa was debated "to death" back around 1998-1999, as many of our
fellow midrangers had to deal with this during their Y2K conversions of
legacy code.

The main thing that makes it perform so poorly is that it causes
arithmetic overflow, which generates an exception that must be handled
by the RPG generated code and/or runtime routines (to silently ignore
this error).

Ugh.
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