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

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Kerry,

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

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

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.

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.