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Laurie
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We are currently using the following compute to display a date. Is there another function or a variable that can be added to this function to display in other languages.

COMPUTE C_MONTH/YYM = DATECVT(MAX.INTMONTHYEAR, 'I8YYMD', 'YYMD');

INTMONTHYEAR is defined as int field and an example value stored in it is 20110131.

On the report it displays in English. We would like it to display in 7 other languages as well.

Thanks.
Laurie

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FrankDutch
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once you have created a smartdate format you can display that date as YYMD or MDYY or DMYY
is that what you mean as languages?

your code misses the D by the way




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<FreSte>
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Laurie,

Look for: "DATETRAN: Formatting Dates in International Formats" in the Functions manual
There are loads of examples:

TABLE FILE CAR
  SUM
    COUNTRY NOPRINT
    COMPUTE D1/DMYY = &DMYY; NOPRINT
    COMPUTE EN/A25  = DATETRAN(D1 ,'(DMYY)' ,'(wrtr)' ,'EN' ,25 ,'A25') ; OVER
    COMPUTE NL/A25  = DATETRAN(D1 ,'(DMYY)' ,'(wrtr)' ,'NL' ,25 ,'A25') ; OVER
    COMPUTE FR/A25  = DATETRAN(D1 ,'(DMYY)' ,'(wrtr)' ,'FR' ,25 ,'A25') ; OVER
    COMPUTE DE/A25  = DATETRAN(D1 ,'(DMYY)' ,'(wrtr)' ,'DE' ,25 ,'A25') ;
  IF RECORDLIMIT EQ 1
END
 
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Waz
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Be wary of DATETRAN with some languages, I found some discrepancies on the translation in versions 7.6.4 and 7.6.5. Not sure about later ones.


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Laurie
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We decided to use the DATETRAN function after all but currently Russian is not working correctly. There is an IBI case to fix that bug. Thanks for your suggestions.
 
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