RE: Date manipulation in CL

["Douglas Palme" <dpalme@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the suggestions, I may also just pass the info to an rpgle,
perform the mods and then send it back for final manip.



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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Peter Levy
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 10:07 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Date manipulation in CL

When I need to do something like this in CL I always convert the source 
to CLLE and use the CEE date APIs (http://tinyurl.com/y27y6f). For your 
example you would first use the CEELOCT API (http://tinyurl.com/g8b34) 
to get the local time in Lilian days (*INT-4), Lilian seconds (*CHAR-8), 
and the familiar Gregorian time-stamp (*CHAR-23). Then you would 
subtract 14 days from the Lilian days field and convert it to a date 
using the CEEDATE API (http://tinyurl.com/yz626v).

Douglas Palme wrote:
> I have been searching google for some info on how to manipulate dates in
CL
> but am coming up somewhat shorthanded.  Specifically, I am looking to
> extract the current system date, subtract a number of days to get a new
date
> and then convert it to a string with the century..
>
>  
>
> Similar to the following:
>
>  
>
> Current system date: 10/26/2006
>
> Subtract 14 days: 10/12/2006
>
> Retrieve century: 06
>
>  
>
> Convert date: 20061012
>
>  
>
> I just have not been able to find much in the way of CL for this..any
> helpful links?
>
>  
>
> D.W.
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