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Jason K.
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I'd like to format a date field to show 9/12, no year, but all the options in report painter include a year. I tried
START_DATE/MD AS 'Start,Date' and gives an error, but
START_DATE/YMD AS 'Start,Date' works just fine, I just don't want the year to show.

Any ideas?

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Dan Satchell
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If you don't mind an alpha output format, function DATETRAN may do the trick:

MONTH_DAY/A5 = DATETRAN(START_DATE,'(MD)','(m/)','ENG',5,'A5');


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Waz
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I believe that date support must have the year.

I think Dans suggestion is the only way, convert to alpha.


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Francis Mariani
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Date support doesn't require the year:

TABLE FILE CAR
SUM
SALES
COMPUTE DT1/YYMD= &YYMD;
DT1/M
DT1/D
-*DT1/DM
END


I'd say that DM or MD was overlooked. New Feature Request?


Francis


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Waz
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Using the day, month or year just extracts the number.

To have day and month you must have a year to put the date in context, so you know what the day of week is.


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j.gross
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Almost.
Casting (reformatting at report time) a /yymd date as...
... /m takes the integer offset (in months) from january, in isolation from the original full date, and formats that for output.

... /d takes the integer offset (in days) from the first of the month

... /md would have to take the integer offset (in days) from Jan 1 -- and how to format that would be dependent on the year (i.e., on whether the year is or is not a Leap Year).


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jgelona
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I think this is a bug/oversight.

If the date is a smart date, the year is there and the format is irrelevant and one should be able to print the date using any combination of valid components. I would consider MD or DM to be valid combinations.


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Jason K.
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we'll just have to convert to alpha for this report. If it were an OLAP report, and sortable on this date field it would be more of a problem.

Agreed, is a bug from my perspective. Thanks everyone for your help!


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Dan Satchell
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Another option is to convert the date to a date-time field. Date-time fields have a few more formatting options available than SmartDates. The lower case "d" in the output format specification drops leading zeroes in the day component of the output, but I can't find a corresponding format option for the month component (another oversight?).

TABLE FILE CAR
 PRINT
  COUNTRY
  COMPUTE START_DATE/HYYMD = DT(&YYMD); NOPRINT
  START_DATE/HMd
END


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