Does this work on jBase...

 CRT ICONV(20101110 '££££-££-££','DS') 'DWA'

...as it does on Reality?


On Nov 10, 2:07 am, Harish Venugopal <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hi Williams,
>          What Simon has stated is correct. This is the issue with the
> internal interpretation of dates in jbase since 31-12-1967 midnight. However
> a little change in the code helped arrive at the correct result.
>
>     PROGRAM TEST.DATES
>
>     $INCLUDE GLOBUS.BP I_COMMON
>
>     $INCLUDE GLOBUS.BP I_EQUATE
>
>     CALC.DATE = '20101102'
>
>     CALC.DATE=ICONV(CALC.DATE,'D')
>
>     DAY.STR = OCONV(CALC.DATE,'DWA')
>
>     PRINT DAY.STR
>
>     STOP
>
> *OUTPUT:*
>
> Object TEST.DATES cataloged successfully
>
> TEST.DATES
>
> TUESDAY
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Cheers,
> Harish
>
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 5:16 AM, Simon Verona <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>
>
> > I think it's not reading the number as a literal external date but an
> > internal date - 20101102 days after Dec 31, 1967.
>
> > I'm not going to work out what the actual date is, but I'm sure that will
> > be the issue ... Try replacing with 11/02/2010 (or 02/11/2010 if not in the
> > US)
>
> > Regards
>
> > Simon
>
> > =========================
> > Simon Verona
> > Director
> > Dealer Management Services Ltd
>
> > T: 0845 686 2300
>
> > Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On 9 Nov 2010, at 20:57, Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I need help regarding the piece of code below:
>
> >     SUBROUTINE TEST.DATES
> >     $INSERT I_COMMON
> >     $INSERT I_EQUATE
>
> >     CALC.DATE = '20101102'
> >     DAY.STR = OCONV(CALC.DATE,'DWA')
> >     PRINT DAY.STR
>
> > END
>
> > The system returns SUNDAY. I expect this to be TUESDAY because 20101102 is
> > Tuesday.
>
> > Anybody with idea please.
>
> >  *Williams*
>
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