Re: Date Handling Problem -- COBOL400-L

Subject: Re: Date Handling Problem
From: "R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr." <rbruceh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 11:47:24 -0400
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Tubbs" <eatubbs@email.com>
To: <cobol400-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 11:34 AM
Subject: Date Handling Problem


> 0140.00            ACCEPT TODAYS-DATE FROM DATE.



this returns the date as a two digit year.

what you want is

accept today-date from date YYYYMMDD.
this will return the 4 digit year, and note that the format is in ISO
sequence.

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