AW: Need help formatting a timestamp to long character

Hi,

I'd use embedded SQL:

The following SQL statement converts a timestamp (MyTs) into a character
representation for example "06:53 AM, Friday, April 9 2010"
Exec SQL Set :MyChar = Char(Time(:MyTS), USA) concat ', ' concat
DayName(:MyTS) concat ', ' concat
MonthName(:MyTS) concat ' ' concat
Cast(DayOfMonth(:MyTS) as VarChar(2))
concat ' ' concat
Cast(Year(:MyTS) as Varchar(4));

Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards

Birgitta Hauser

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Betreff: Need help formatting a timestamp to long character

Hello,

I need to convert a 26 character system timestamp (Z type) to a string
that goes something like: "nn:nn AM/PM, Day name, Month name DD,
YYYY".

At first I saw the CEEDATE API and got excited as it seemed to be able
to output that format precisely and then noticed that it cannot take a
time as input, only Lilian days (which makes me wonder why it allows
you to specify the time symbols on the input picture string).

Anyway it looks like I can use CEEDATE to get the date part formatted
and then manually do the time section.

Just wondering if anyone has a better solution or suggestion, don't
want to reinvent the wheel as I'm sure this has been done elsewhere.

Thanks in advance.
-Paul