Re: Change the day of a date -- RPG400-L

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Subject: Re: Change the day of a date
From: Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 17:10:24 -0400
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On 2012/6/13 10:33 AM, Jon Paris wrote:

This is one of those occasions where I'd be tempted to do a
variation of the "old" approach and probably bury it in a
subproc. I love the date functions but speed wise this is
going to win every time.

D DS
D MyNewDateField...
D d DatFmt(*USA)
D Month 2s 0 Overlay(MyNewDateField)
D 1a Overlay(MyNewDateField: *next)
D Day 2s 0 Overlay(MyNewDateField: *next)
...

Yep, good point, a data structure overlay works fine here. I got caught up in the details of Chuck's code.

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