Brian, your apology is graciously accepted ;-) To clear up the misunderstanding, the conversion and the rules should be consistent with ICONVing a month name. Use `DMA' instead of `DWA' in the sample program from my original post and you'll get the gist of it.
As far as ISO conversion goes - here's a hypothetical question for you: If 2 book orders came in from the web each for 1 "Da Vinci Code", you only have 1 in stock, which order gets priority? The one dated 2006-04-30T02:56:32+11:00 or the other dated 2006-04-29T11:56:32-05:00? That's right, you have to cut the book in half... even though one order was dated the 30^th and the other the 29^th they were raised at exactly the same moment in time (spooky music plays - camera pans to cryptic symbols ...) and have the same temporal priority. The fact that ISO date time is a recognised international standard and is used extensively in XML, is "language" and OS independent and that it DOESN'T separate date and time is actually something I wish Pick did better. It is functionality that IBM already have in other products and could easily incorporate into a U2. Cheers, Stuart ______________________________________________________________________ Stuart > Speaking of ICONV, anyone noticed that `DWx' > conversions are fubar. Sorry to sound negative and apologies if I'm misunderstanding your gripe but.. How can you ICONV with a DW? Date conversions should ICONV to a specific date to be meaningful: if you want to convert a Monday - which Monday? This Monday, last Monday, nearest Monday, the first Monday (this year), first Monday ever? (give or take a couple of billion years). And if IBM did pluck one of those out of a hat, you can bet your bottom dollar half the people on the list would complain that it wasn't *their* interpretation. Some conversions just ain't meant to be reversible. > This, along with my other gripe of not easily handling > ISO standard > dates (yyyy-mm-ddTHH:mm:ssZ) it seems like an That really stems from the fact that MVDBMS sensibly separate date and time: something I so often wish other languages did! You can get the date format using: D-YMD[4,2,2] Eg. LIST BOOK_SALES SALE_DATE CONV "D-YMD[4,2,2]" LIST BOOK_SALES SALE_DATE SALE_DATE CONV "D-YMD[4,2,2]" 09:26:16am 13 Jun 2006 PAGE 1 BOOK_SALES... Sale Date.. Sale Date.. 13660*37800*1 25 MAY 2005 2005-05-25 13512*63000*1 28 DEC 2004 2004-12-28 13715*54000*3 19 JUL 2005 2005-07-19 Brian ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ********************************************************************** This email message and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of addressed recipient(s). If you have received this email in error please notify the Spotless IS Support Centre (+61 3 9269 7555) immediately, who will advise further action. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been scanned for the presence of computer related viruses. ********************************************************************** ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
