Re: Date formats (was Frank Doherty will be back on Tuesday (all being well))

[Luis Rodriguez <luisro58@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jon,

> "some countries"?  How about "just about all".  MDY is such an unusual
> format that in IBM date terms the four digit year version is
> designated as *USA!

Well, just trying to be courteous with my American colleagues :-)

Just curious, Would you care to elaborate on that conversion method?

Thanks,

Luis Rodriguez
IBM Certified Systems Expert — eServer i5 iSeries


On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> "some countries"?  How about "just about all".  MDY is such an unusual
> format that in IBM date terms the four digit year version is
> designated as *USA!
>
> When I was working on IBM's Y2K offerings the contractor that produced
> the tool did not originally include an MDY version as they had never
> heard of it.  As a result (and luckily for them) they had never
> encountered the idiotic multiply by 10000.01 conversion method either.
>
>
> Jon Paris
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>
> On Dec 14, 2009, at 12:23 PM, rpg400-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > In some countries, the date order is DD/MM/YYYY, instead of MM/DD/
> > YYYY as is
> > the custom in th US.
>
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