Re: Date formats

I wonder... if native date support had been in place since the beginning,
would we have ever seen the 10000.01 trick? I'm only coming up on my 3rd
anniversary on the platform, so this might be a naive point of view.

Well, you have to remember that this platform is about 20 years old
(and its ancestors a lot more than that). On the other hand, although
the Date format has been around for quite a while, I still find new
programs and files coded with the NUM(8, 0) format, so who knows?

Regards,

Luis Rodriguez
IBM Certified Systems Expert — eServer i5 iSeries



On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Bryce Martin <BMartin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Date sorting is most 'natural' when done yyyymmdd.  That is why people
always want to switch the order of the parts.  This is actually quite mute
in anything that is done with native date values, but most databases on
the i are not set up this way.  From what I've seem most date records are
stored as numeric, and I'm guessing 8,0 numeric at that.  If everything
was stored as Date then there would be little use for all this switching
around since I'm not aware of too many people who display dates as
2009/12/16, or 2009, Dec 16.


I wonder... if native date support had been in place since the beginning,
would we have ever seen the 10000.01 trick?  I'm only coming up on my 3rd
anniversary on the platform, so this might be a naive point of view.


Thanks
Bryce Martin
Programmer/Analyst I
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Sorry Glen
completely disagree
which is "first"
12/15/09
or
12/01/10



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If you use numeric fields for your dates I think mmddyy has a more
'natural' sort then ddmmyy. Of course, being from the US, I'm biased. :)

Glenn

Carel Teijgeler wrote:

I think the illogical *USA date format is more a statistical solution to
compare months' profits over the years.

Or is there another reason for this format?

With regards,
Carel Teijgeler


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On 14-12-2009 at 12:47 Jon Paris 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.

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