I would also like for the date of Easter, day of the week Christmas falls on, the moon phase, and the Chinese zodiac year to be appended.
Otherwise, DFSORT is so lame. sas On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 7:36 PM Retired Mainframer < 000003a485c129c3-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf > Of > Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2022 3:29 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Using SORT to generate sequential Dates > > On Thu, 30 Jun 2022 22:22:08 +0000, Sri h Kolusu <skol...@us.ibm.com> > wrote: > > >>>I tried this in Rexx. I found it astonishingly hard to get "the end of > the > >>>current month". > > > >DFSORT has plethora of date related functions that can get the last day > of > >month, Quarter and year quite easily in either Gregorian format or Julian > >format. > > > So it accounts for thee switch from Julian to Gregorian in Catholic > countries > in 1582 > and in Protestant countries in 1752? > > -- > gil > > How come you didn't ask about the lunar calendar used in Israel or the one > used in Muslim countries? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
