Re: System Date - can it be 'intercepted' ?

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jim,

On 2/10/2011 1:59 PM, Jim Wiant wrote:
> I did some digging and I can't find a way to override or control the
> system date other than changing the date, which again is not my first
> choice because it will affect all testing not just the one I want and
> the impact on the journals scare me anyway.

Back during the time when we were testing Y2K stuff, we bought a product 
called "AnyDate" that let us override the system date.  That product 
appears to still be for sale today (though, I haven't used it since 1999)
http://www.sequel-software.com/products/anydate

I don't know if it changed, but back in 1999, it essentially consisted 
of two commands:

  OVRSYSDATE = override system date
  DLTDATEOVR = delete date override.

So you'd run OVRSYSDATE to override the system date.  While that command 
is in effect, %DATE(), %TIMESTAMP(), the TIME opcode, RTVSYSVAL QDATE, 
etc, would return the date you provided on the OVRSYSDATE.  When you ran 
DLTDATEOVR, it'd revert to getting the date from the clock as normal.

So that might help you?