Re: Calculating a New Date -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: Calculating a New Date
From: "Bill" <billzbubb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 16:16:39 -0700
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Scott Klement wrote:
> I don't understand the benefit of doing this.   Why not just have each
> prgoram use the date operations when it needs to convert the dates?
> Is this program really saving you anything?

Because the primary function of the program is to calculate a new date.
Currently, the output format is restricted and I was going to open it up to
allow the specification of the output format.

Bill

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