It isn't that ROFLOL, rather there are situations where human dates are stored in text fields and can be dissected out.
I did have one client's app (circa 1974) that I still support today that I converted the 991231 (YYMMDD) date fields to ICONV's. They had run from 1974 through 1997 when I got on board with half of their dates that way and the rest as ICONV'd. But in 1999 it was justified to repair for obvious Y2K reasons. Mark Johnson. The Y2K situation didn't produce a whole lot of revenue for me. Day 10,000 was more profitable although not record breaking either. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Allen E. Elwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 1:34 PM Subject: RE: [U2] Date ICONV In English > I started to post this: > As far as I know the human readable is only used during output. In other > words, there is no conversion during sorting. The system is already sorting > by the internal representation of the date. > > But now I realize that someone actually STORED the OCONV version of a date > in a file??!!! ROFLOL!! Now that's funny..... > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark Johnson > Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 06:00 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [U2] Date ICONV In English > > > To All: > > Is there any simple method short of an Itype or called routine to convert > the > human date of 12/15/05 into its ICONV version to then sort by. > > I've run into another data file on a customer's system that has this in a > specific place, albeit non-sortable. I could write a [] conversion to put > the > year first, but I would like to know of a process code that may help. > > Thanks in advance. > Mark Johnson > ------- > u2-users mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ > ------- > u2-users mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
