I was asked this question today & can't remember the answer!! Anyone any ideas?

[Chris Sharman]

Hamilton, Allison wrote:
> Because VMSDATE does not report the time by default, never has.  You can 
> force it out using output scale and picture as in:
> 
>  REPORT VMS_DATE_SYS PICTURE "^^^^/^^/^^ ^^:^^:^^.^^^"  OUTPUT SCALE 9

I never knew this was posible - I've always used dateextract to define a 
temp, which is horribly messy, particularly when you want input as well 
as display.

What versions is this supported from ?
Does it support various formats, or just yyyymmdd ?

Thanks,
Chris



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