Re: System Date question

[Glenn Ericson <Glenn-Ericson@xxxxxxx>]

Carl
etal
 My guess is on the advance of  time they rolled right 
past midnight into the next day

Regards,

Glenn
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At 11:41 AM 5/20/99 -0400, you wrote:
>How are they looking at the date.  The system date can be viewed using
>DSPSYSVAL QDATE or WRKSYSVAL QDATE, or retrieved using RTVSYSVAL.  The job
>date associated with a job is the date the job started.  If your friend is
>using UDATE in an RPG program, then his program will get the job date, not
>the system date.
>HTH.
>Carl Galgano
>EDI Consulting Services, Inc.
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>    -----Original Message-----
>    From: Richie <subscriber@bigfoot.com>
>    To: midrange-l@midrange.com <midrange-l@midrange.com>
>    Date: Thursday, May 20, 1999 10:54 AM
>    Subject: System Date question
>
>
>    Hello,
>
>    A friend of mine is asking me about the behavior of the system date in
>AS/400. They are currently doing integration testing of their remediated
>programs for Y2K compliance.
>
>    This is the scenario:
>
>    While testing, their current date is Jan 1, 2000, then they changed the
>system time to 12:01AM, they checked the date and it is still the same.
>However, upon signing off and then logging on again they noticed that the
>system date is already Jan 2, 2000. Her question is this:  Is this what the
>OS normally should do? or the date should still be Jan 1, 2000?
>
>    TIA.
>
>    Richie
>
>Attachment Converted: "D:\EUDORA\ATTACH\ReSystem"
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