IBMi (AS400) fans only - Fully Free RPG get Today's date with a single instruction

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In this example, the wToday field is numeric 6 with 0 decimal places.


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It should contain today's date in yymmdd format

       dcl-s WToday zoned(6);

           wToday = %dec(%char(%date():*ymd0):6:0); // today - oggi


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  1. Diego ComaschiJuly 25, 2022 at 6:19 PM

    Hey Aldo , there is a another issue solution provided by DB2 the example includes timezone as well if needed

    values (current_timestamp , (current_timestamp - current time zone) , dec(varchar_format((current_timestamp - current time zone), 'mmddyy'),6))

    Please try that and let me know
    Best
    Diego

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  2. AnonymousMay 1, 2023 at 7:23 PM

    wToday = %dec(%char(%date():*ymd0):6:0); // today - oggi
    You can change %dec for %int as well making it shorter

    wToday = %int(%char(%date():*ymd0)); // today - oggi

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    1. Aldo SUCCIMay 2, 2023 at 11:49 AM

      Yes, it's true. It also works with %int. Thank you my dear reader.

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