Comments on: Converting date values in AS/400 database http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/converting-date-values-in-database/ Sat, 18 May 2013 20:55:13 +0000 hourly 1 By: teandy http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/converting-date-values-in-database/#comment-71027 teandy Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:59:11 +0000 #comment-71027 Why would you want to change the date format in the database? If this is an actual date data type in the file you can use the CHAR operator, or one of the other operators, in Query/400 to convert the date to the format you want.

If this is a date that is in error in the file, then you need to write some sort of program to display the date to a screen so it can be corrected and written back to the file.

]]> By: tomliotta http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/converting-date-values-in-database/#comment-71014 tomliotta Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:45:44 +0000 #comment-71014 …a date value 20/09/1231 for 31st Dec 2009 in the database…

Since that’ (20/09/1231) is a fairly unlikely date, I’d suspect that it actually is 2009-12-31 and that you’re simply applying a MM/DD/YYYY or DD/MM/YYYY edit to arrive at the date that you showed.

Most likely, you simply need to handle the date with a proper definition.

What is the field definition in the database? (What data type? Length?)

Tom

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