Re: Date conversion question

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Emily

A more general usage given the century in position 1 is to use *CYMD0 
and substring 7 characters from position 1.

Vern

On 8/4/2010 4:46 PM, Emily Smith wrote:
> alphadate = '1100802144806' ;
> datefld = %date(%subst(alphadate:2:6):*YMD0) ;
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> Tested this and it seems to work.
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> message: 7
> date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 16:24:15 -0500
> from: "sjl"<sjl_abc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> subject: Date conversion question
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> All -
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> I'm using the QUSRMBRD API to retrieve member description information.
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> The member creation date is a 13-byte alpha value returned in the form
> CYYMMDDHHMMSS.
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> Example:  '1100802144806'  (August 8, 2010, 14:48:06)
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> What is the correct way to convert this value into a date field for
> performing a date comparison in an RPG program?
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> Regards,
> sjl
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