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EdG
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I can't seem to find any way to format a date field to be displayed like 25 DEC 08. The only format near this is myDate/DMTY which produces 25 DEC, 08. I know I can redefine and strip out the comma but I would there there is a standard formatting statement.
Thanks for the help!
Ed

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FrankDutch
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Ed

What is the internal format for this field?
(the master file description?)

Do you have the proper manuals for converting fields?

There is a very good and cheap book than gives you almost 1001 formulas to convert and calculate with dates that you should buy.




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Francis Mariani
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DEFINE FILE CAR
DATE0/A8YYMD = '20081225';
DATE1/DMTY = DATE0;
DATE2/A17 = CHGDAT('YYMD', 'DMTY', DATE0, 'A17');
END

TABLE FILE CAR
SUM
DATE1
DATE2
SALES
BY CAR
END


DATE1 is a normal date reformat which results in "25 DEC, 08".
DATE2 uses the "legacy" Date Format Change CHGDAT function and results in "25 DEC 08".


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EdG
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FIELDNAME=ACTIVITYDATE, ALIAS=activityDate, USAGE=YYMMD, ACTUAL=DATE, $


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EdG
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Thanks, that worked for me. I am a bit surprised that there is not a built in 'current' function to do this w/o having to use the legacy CYHGDAT.


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Look at the DATETRAN function.


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PBrightwell
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You could put a define in you MFD using Francis' CHGDAT and then the format would be available anytime you used that file.


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Francis Mariani
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Rick man,

DATETRAN appears to have won the prize for most annoying syntax in a function. I can't get it to work. Would you be so kind as to give us an example of how to make this function output the requested date format?

This doesn't work:

DEFINE FILE CAR
DATE0/YYMD = DATECVT('20081225', 'A8YYMD', 'YYMD');
DATE1/A15 = DATETRAN(DATE0, '(MDYY)', '(BT)', 'EN', 15, 'A15');
END

TABLE FILE CAR
SUM
DATE0
DATE1
SALES
BY CAR
END


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This seemed to work for me in R766(win):

DATE1/A15 = DATETRAN(DATE0, '(DMY)', '(BT)', 'EN', 15, DATE1);


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Rick Man
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Try this:
DATE1/A11 = DATETRAN(DATE0, '(DMYY)', '(-T)', 'EN', 11, 'A11');


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Francis Mariani
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Rick Man,

Thank you, but that results in "25-DEC-2008", not what EdG is looking for. He would like "25 DEC 08".

DATETRAN must be a commissioned function - written by a non-IBI programmer, it's the only way to explain why the syntax for this function is completely different than the other date functions. What are those brackets for? And, according to the manual, format option 'T' "Displays month as an abbreviated name with no punctuation, all uppercase." It doesn't state how to output the day and year.


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DEFINE FILE CAR
DATE0/YYMD = DATECVT('20081225', 'A8YYMD', 'YYMD');
DATE1/A15 = DATETRAN(DATE0, '(DMY)', '(BT)', 'EN', 15, 'A15');
DATE2/A15 = LCWORD(15,DATETRAN(DATE0, '(DMY)', '(BT)', 'EN', 15, 'A15'),'A15');
END

TABLE FILE CAR
SUM
DATE0
DATE1 DATE2
SALES
BY CAR
END

This returns

CAR        DATE0      DATE1     DATE2     SALES 
ALFA ROMEO 2008/12/25 25 DEC 08 25 Dec 08 30200 
AUDI       2008/12/25 25 DEC 08 25 Dec 08 7800 
BMW        2008/12/25 25 DEC 08 25 Dec 08 80390


BTW. the reason for being so weird is that it is the only date function
that accomodates NLS for formatting. That doe not explain the need for the ()though.

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Using the DMTY format with Legacy dates (I6DMTY) does not include the comma after the month. Simply convert the Smart Date to a Legacy date without the need for subroutines.

DEFINE FILE CAR
DATE0/YYMD='20081225';
DATE1/I6DMTY=DATE0;
END
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT DATE0 DATE1
BY COUNTRY
END

COUNTRY     DATE0           DATE1
-------     -----           -----
ENGLAND     2008/12/25  25 DEC 08
FRANCE      2008/12/25  25 DEC 08
ITALY       2008/12/25  25 DEC 08
JAPAN       2008/12/25  25 DEC 08
W GERMANY   2008/12/25  25 DEC 08


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Francis Mariani
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JG, thanks for the explanation. I finally get it.

The documentation seems a little unclear - it doesn't really suggest that the input type is also the output:

DATETRAN (indate, '(intype)', '([formatops])', 'lang', outlen, output)

intype - Is one of the following character strings indicating the input date components and the
order in which you want them to display, enclosed in parentheses and single quotation
marks.


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