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[SOLVED] How to change field format from MDYYX to YYMD?
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Gints
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How to change field format from MDYYX to YYMD? There are ways how to do it in other way, but I have not found the way how to do it in this way. Can somebody help?

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WebFOCUS 8
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Posts: 7 | Registered: October 17, 2016Report This Post
dbeagan
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Do you mean this?

-SET &Date1 = 'October 26, 2020';
-SET &Date2 = DATECVT(DTADD('&Date1', DAY, 0), 'MDYY', 'A8YYMD');
-TYPE &Date1 --> &Date2


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Gints
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Thanks it works as needed!


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