Re: Change the day of a date

One possible means:

DayNbr = %subdt( MyNewDateField : *DAYS ) ;
if DayNbr >= 16 ; // set day to 16
MyNewDateField = MyNewDateField - %days( DayNbr - 16 ) ;
else ; // <= 15 ; set day to 01
MyNewDateField = MyNewDateField - %days( DayNbr - 01 ) ;
endif ;Nice.

Super-mini improvement is to do without the work field, and to modernize
the
syntax:

if %subdt(MyNewDateField: *Days) >= 16 ; // set day to 16
MyNewDateField -= %days( DayNbr - 16 ) ;
else ; // <= 15 ; set day to 01
MyNewDateField -= %days( DayNbr - 01 ) ;
endif ;

Dennis Lovelady
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Regards, Chuck

On 12 Jun 2012 01:53, Dave wrote:

Is there a nice way to do this, given a date DD/MM/YYYY:

If the day of my date field is the 16th or later,
MyNewDateField = 16/MM/YYYY

Else
MyNewDateField = 01/MM/YYYY

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