Re: Converting a date

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

%DATE came out at V5R1 - it is the same all the way to 7.1, haven't 
checked 7.2.

On 1/7/2015 8:29 PM, Booth Martin wrote:
> One question no one seems sure about what stage of its evolution was 
> the %date bif in V5R3?
>
>
> On 1/7/2015 3:32 PM, Alan Campin wrote:
> > I am lost here. If we have a numeric value, why are we converting it 
> > to an
> > alpha value?
> >
> > d NumDate...
> > d                             s             8p 0   Inz(20140101)
> > d DateField...
> > d                              s               d
> > d NumDateUSA...
> > d                             s             8p 0
> > d NumDateAlpha...
> > d                             s            10a Inz('01/01/2014')
> >     DateField = %Date(NumDate:*ISO); // or whatever format you need.
> >
> >     // convert to *USA format.
> >
> > NumDateUSA = %Dec(%Date(NumDate:*ISO):*USA);
> >
> > NumDateUSA should be 01012014.
> >
> > DateField = %Date(NumDateAlpha:*USA/);
> >
> > etc.