Re: Date format errors creating timestamp -- RPG400-L

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message: 2
date: Wed, 09 Jul 2014 12:15:55 -0500
from: Booth Martin<booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: Date format errors creating timestamp

D, T, and Z fields are not stored in any format useful to us. For
instance, as I understand it, a date field is only 4 somethings in
length. These fields know what they are and we don't care what they
are. We only care how we see them. In other words, QTSTAMP is not a z
field so you can't slip a z field in to it. If QTSTAMP is a new field
in the file, why not change the field's definition to being a timestamp
field?

As clear as I try to make my messages, I always leave out something.

The field QTSTAMP is a new field in the new file defined as timestamp. I ended up with the intermediate field MYTS as I was trying different things to get the code to work.

I'm not sure what you mean by D,T,Z not stored in format useful to us. How else can I create a timestamp field without using these definitions?

I am just confused because my program dump shows the timestamp field to look correct.

---Dale

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