There are two that I know of which you did not mention. Lilian and COBOL. COBOL is an integer which is the number of days since 31Dec1600. Lilian is an integer which is the number of days since 14Oct1582.
-- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets® 9151 Boulevard 26 . N. Richland Hills . TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone . (817)-691-6183 cell john.mck...@healthmarkets.com . www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets® is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company®, Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of zMan > Sent: Friday, August 13, 2010 11:25 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Date formats > > How many different date formats are there? There's the hardware > timestamp, in two forms (original, with the 2046 rollover, and the > extended one -- what is that, a STCKE instruction?). There's something > called an "Oracle format date". There's some UNIX format that rolls > over in 2034 or some such (tsk, with an epoch of 1970 -- they sure > weren't planning ahead!), too. > > Not to mention yy/mm/dd, mm/dd/yy, dd/mm/yy, with 2- and 4-digit > dates, varying separators (or no separators: yyyymmdd et al.), with > and without leading zeroes (when there are separators: today as > 8/13/2010 vs. 08/13/2010). And of course (the misnamed) Julian format. > > Rexx has a few others, but they're conveniences, like the number of > days this year -- I don't really consider that a date format, though > it's useful sometimes. > > What others are there? I'm working on something that will flexibly > handle dates, and while I'm not sure I'll handle every format > possible, I'd at least like to make the decision based on a pretty > complete set of possible formats. > -- > zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
