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moyer1dl
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How would I convert the system time from military to Normal Time (AM PM

Webfocus 7.1.1


Dan Moyer


IBM Main Frame: MVS, FIX, VSAM

Windows SQL

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Posts: 147 | Registered: June 24, 2006Report This Post
Francis Mariani
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You're talking about converting most-of-the-world time to mostly-north-america time?

I am assuming you want to do this in Dialogue Manager. It seems ridiculous, but this is the quickest way I could find:

-SET &ECHO=ALL;
-SET &H1 = EDIT(&TOD,'99');
-SET &H2 = IF &H1 GT 12 THEN &H1 - 12 ELSE &H1;
-SET &M = IF &H1 GT 12 THEN ' PM' ELSE 'AM';

-SET &TOD2 = &H2 | EDIT(&TOD,'$$$:99$:99') | &M;
-TYPE &TOD2


Francis


Give me code, or give me retirement. In FOCUS since 1991

Production: WF 7.7.05M, Dev Studio, BID, MRE, WebSphere, DB2 / Test: WF 8.1.05M, App Studio, BI Portal, Report Caster, jQuery, HighCharts, Apache Tomcat, MS SQL Server
 
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mgrackin
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Francis,

Your technique is good but you lose the leading zero (0).

Just an FYI in case you want the leading zero for hours less than 10.


Thanks!

Mickey

FOCUS/WebFOCUS 1990 - 2011
 
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Jim Morrow
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Beware of the &TOD trap. UNLESS a SET DATETIME = NOW has been issued &TOD is the time the “thread” started, NOT the current time. This can be an issue if you are logging events, but for time stamps on a report the start up time is adequate.

I generally use

-SET &NOW=HHMMSS(‘A8’);

To get the current time.


Jim Morrow
Web Focus 7.6.10 under Windows 2003
MVS 7.3.3



 
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Francis Mariani
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Mickey, I realized that the leading zero dropped, but I thought that if someone wants to display the time in AM/PM, then they probably don't need the leading zero Smiler

Jim, I usually use HHMMSS, but using &TOD isn't a "trap" since my reports usually take 15 seconds or under to run Smiler

Cheers,


Francis


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