Date Format in Displays and Reports

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Date Format in Displays and Reports

All displays and batch reports display the date in the following format:

MMDDYYYY

The date format, date separator character, and time separator character are specified in the SARDFMT load module. The date format is specified in the first byte (hex location 00) of the load module as a hexadecimal value of 00 through 07 as follows:

Date Format	Hexadecimal Value
MM/DD/YYYY (default)	00
DD/MM/YYYY	01
YYYY/MM/DD	02
YYYY/DD/MM	03
MM/DD/YY	04
DD/MM/YY	05
YY/MM/DD	06
YY/DD/MM	07

You can assign a date separator character in the second byte (hex location 01) of the load module. The default data separator is a slash (/).

You can assign a time separator character in the third byte (hex location 03) of the load module. The default time separator is a colon (:).

The date and time separator characters are to be printable characters. Do not confuse these characters with syntactical data, such as a comma or a quotation mark.

Use the SMP USERMOD in the CVDEJCL member BRMSDFMT to set the values in SARDFMT. Change the REP statements in the AMASPZAP input to your required values. For example, if you select MM/DD/YY for your default format, a dash (-) for the date separator, and no change for the time separator, change the AMASPZAP statements in BRMSDFMT as follows:

From:

++ZAP(SARDFMT).
NAME SARDFMT SARDFMT
VER 0000 0061,7A00
REP 0000 0061,7A00
$$

To:

++ZAP(SARDFMT).
NAME SARDFMT SARDFMT
VER 0000 0061,7A00
REP 0000 0460,7A00
$$

The first field in the VER and REP statements contains the location in the module that is being changed. In this case, it is 0000. Do not change this value.

The second field contains four hexadecimal values that are separated into groups of two by a comma.

The VER statement verifies that the values in this statement are the same as the values found at location 0000 in SARDFMT.
The REP statement gives the values that replaces the data at location 0000 in SARDFMT.

In the previous example:

The first position in field 2 in the REP statement was changed from 00 to 04 to specify the MM/DD/YY date format as defined in the preceding table.
The second position was changed from 61 (/) to 60 (-).
The third position is unchanged because we are not changing the time separator in this example.
The fourth position is never changed.

Note: To change SARDFMT, reapply this USERMOD.