RE: Dealing with changing time

[James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Mark A. Manske wrote:

> Ohh, thats gotta be a nasty API, but then again
> I can just imagine how ugly the date API's are.
> So if the API knows it, great, let the super
> geeks help out us mediocre geeks.

Not so bad, I don't think.  The example I posted takes a timestamp as an
argument and returns a char.  Maybe better would be to take a timestamp
and a char as arguments and return an error code if the timestamp couldn't
be converted (like *loval was passed in).  The service program would
probably do some small amount of work and then do the the RPG equivalent
of the following C code:

  time_t curtime;
  struct tm *curdate;

  curtime = time (NULL);
  curdate = localtime (&curtime);

This gives you the timezone adjusted time of the current time.  But if you
replace NULL with the time you really want then curdate will have the
timezone adjusted value.  Not too hard, now that I think about.  Time to
hack this together...

James Rich