Scratch that, should read things more carefully, obviously 2 hours sleep is not
enough.
Cheers,
Andy
From: andy baum
To: U2 Users List
Sent: Thursday, 8 December 2011, 7:52
Subject: Re: [U2] End of Month date routine
Stuart,
You are getting the
= @false
will never be happen as it will already have been picked up by the previous case
Cheers,
Andy
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Sent: Thursday, 8 December 2011, 6:44
Subject: Re: [U2] End of Month date routine
On UV the vlist woul
Sent: Thursday, 8 December 2011 15:02
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Subject: Re: [U2] End of Month date routine
Why couldn't you say
LEAP.YEAR = NOT(MOD(YEAR,4)) AND (NOT(MOD(YEAR,400)) OR MOD(YEAR,100))
Would the system process the whole line
eers,
Andy
From: Daniel McGrath
To: "dgr...@dagconsulting.com" ; U2 Users List
Sent: Wednesday, 7 December 2011, 18:57
Subject: Re: [U2] End of Month date routine
I added the code to PasteBin so as to not flood here:
http://pastebin.com/JMyqhFud
I did a few more than 100K and I cu
el McGrath' ; 'U2 Users List'
Sent: Wednesday, 7 December 2011, 20:23
Subject: Re: [U2] End of Month date routine
Okay I took the fastest routine and made it into an $INSERT piece of code:
YEAR = OCONV(THE.DATE, "DY")
IF MOD(YEAR,4) THEN
LEAP.YEAR = 0
END ELSE
IF
h
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Sent: Wednesday, 7 December 2011, 18:57
Subject: Re: [U2] End of Month date routine
I added the code to PasteBin so as to not flood here:
http://pastebin.com/JMyqhFud
I did a few more than 100K and I cut the OCONV step out from all of th
heers,
Andy
From: Daniel McGrath
To: "dgr...@dagconsulting.com" ; U2 Users List
Sent: Wednesday, 7 December 2011, 18:57
Subject: Re: [U2] End of Month date routine
I added the code to PasteBin so as to not flood here:
http://pastebin.com/JMyqhFud
I did a few more than 100K and
And seeing how this thread is petering out how about this alternative:
meDate = date()
currentMonth = oconv(meDate,'dm')
loop while oconv(meDate + 1,'dm') = curMonth do meDate += 1 repeat
Personally I vote for Marco's solution, though it may need brackets or an
oconv.
List'
Sent: Wed, Dec 7, 2011 12:23 pm
Subject: Re: [U2] End of Month date routine
Okay I took the fastest routine and made it into an $INSERT piece of code:
YEAR = OCONV(THE.DATE, "DY")
F MOD(YEAR,4) THEN
LEAP.YEAR = 0
ND ELSE
IF MOD(YEAR, 100) THEN
LEAP.YEAR = 1
Original Message-
From: Daniel McGrath [mailto:dmcgr...@rocketsoftware.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 11:57 AM
To: dgr...@dagconsulting.com; U2 Users List
Subject: RE: [U2] End of Month date routine
I added the code to PasteBin so as to not flood here:
http://pastebin.com/JMyqhF
D')-1
**END.OF.MONTH IS THE INTERNAL DATE FOR THE LAST DAY OF THE MONTH
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From: Marco Antonio Rojas Castro [mailto:marco_roja...@hotmail.com]
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 3:49 PM
To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
Subject: Re: [U2] End of Month date routine
TOD
users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of David A. Green
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 10:48 AM
To: 'U2 Users List'
Subject: Re: [U2] End of Month date routine
Who wants to take each of the Leap Year calculations and put them into
different subroutines and loop 100K times and s
LEAP.YEAR needs to be FALSE at the start
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Wjhonson
Sent: 07 December 2011 18:49
To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
Subject: Re: [U2] End of Month date routine
Because
Oops, maybe all those Mods in my code are supposed to be... NOT(MOD...
Just maybe
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From: Daniel McGrath
To: U2 Users List
Sent: Wed, Dec 7, 2011 10:22 am
Subject: Re: [U2] End of Month date routine
That doesn't give the correct results, although removin
Because ?
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From: Daniel McGrath
To: U2 Users List
Sent: Wed, Dec 7, 2011 10:22 am
Subject: Re: [U2] End of Month date routine
That doesn't give the correct results, although removing the comparisons with 0
ill improve it's performance - as you say.
--
ecember 07, 2011 10:29 AM
To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
Subject: Re: [U2] End of Month date routine
This algorithm is redundant and also fails to take into account the Boolean
nature of the terms and thus adds extra unneeded op codes in the compare to 0
and compare to 1 steps. Below is the
Who wants to take each of the Leap Year calculations and put them into
different subroutines and loop 100K times and see which one is faster using
profiling?
David A. Green
(480) 813-1725
DAG Consulting
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P.YEAR = 0
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From: Daniel McGrath
To: U2 Users List
Sent: Wed, Dec 7, 2011 8:02 am
Subject: Re: [U2] End of Month date routine
Perfectly fine except if you need to run this is a very large loop (such as
atch processing 100 million records - although it only adds about 1
SYSTEM(36)
BEGIN CASE
CASE INT.DATE.FORMAT = 0 ; DATE.FORMAT = "MD"
CASE INT.DATE.FORMAT = 1 ; DATE.FORMAT = "DM"
CASE 1 ; GOSUB UNSUPPORTED.DATE.FORMAT
END CASE
RETURN
!
NSUPPORTED.DATE.FORMAT:
MSG = "Unsupported Da
0
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of David A. Green
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 8:25 AM
To: 'U2 Users List'
Subject: Re: [U2] End of Month date routine
YEAR = OCONV(PASS.DATE, "DY")
TEST = ICON
NT.DATE.FORMAT = 1 ; DATE.FORMAT = "DM"
CASE 1 ; GOSUB UNSUPPORTED.DATE.FORMAT
END CASE
RETURN
!
UNSUPPORTED.DATE.FORMAT:
MSG = "Unsupported Date Format ":DQUOTE(SYSTEM(36))
GOSUB ABORT.MSG
RETURN
!
INVALID.TYPE:
f Daniel McGrath
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 4:22 PM
To: U2 Users List
Subject: Re: [U2] End of Month date routine
Leap years are a little more complex than MOD(YEAR,4)
>From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_years#Algorithm
if year modulo 4 is 0
then
if year modulo 100 is 0
Mr Castro's code wins. Pure elegance.
Marco Antonio Rojas Castro - initials M.A.R.C.
My uncle's name is Roy Owen Young - I tease him it's so he can remember it.
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Can I *improve* on your method?
Months = '31,':(28+Leap):',31,30,31,30,31,31,30,31,30,31'
Last.day = FIELD(Months,",",Month)
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From: John Hester
To: U2 Users List
Sent: Tue, Dec 6, 2011 3:15 pm
Subject: Re: [U2] End of Month date routine
ect: Re: [U2] End of Month date routine
Your method is also the way I've always done it, but an alternate method just
came to mind:
MONTH = OCONV(DATE, 'DM')
YEAR = OCONV(DATE, 'D Y[Z4]')
LEAP = MOD(YEAR, 4) = 0
MONTHS = ''
MONTHS<1> = 31
MONTHS<2>
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Holt, Jake
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 2:34 PM
To: U2 Users List
Subject: Re: [U2] End of Month date routine
Someone has probably already suggested one like this but I use:
DATE
27;D')-1
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of John
Hatherill
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 3:33 PM
To: U2 Users List
Subject: Re: [U2] End of Month date routine
Tdate = OCONV(DATE(),"D4-")
mm1= T
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From: Rick Nuckolls
To: U2 Users List
Sent: Mon, Dec 5, 2011 5:00 pm
Subject: Re: [U2] End of Month date routine
Just for laughs, the following works with only a single date conversion, though
will admit that it gets a little too obscure to be considered maintainable.
dmittedly,
That's better. It wasn't the ';' in the last one that caused the problem -
especially with a generic routine - it was the reliance on the date format
being m/d/y (which Dave's original noted).
Not sure why you're trying so hard to compress the lines. This routine will
easily fit in pretty much any
Okay you win the prize for the longest method ;)
-Original Message-
From: Rick Nuckolls
To: U2 Users List
Sent: Mon, Dec 5, 2011 5:00 pm
Subject: Re: [U2] End of Month date routine
Just for laughs, the following works with only a single date conversion, though
will admit
XT.MO - OCONV(A.DAY.NEXT.MO,'DD')
>
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Wjhonson
> To: u2-users
> Sent: Mon, Dec 5, 2011 2:15 pm
> Subject: Re: [U2] End of Month date routine
>
>
>
> arco, this is absolutely brilliant.
> nd I reserve the
Dave Laansma took a more generic approach which does not require
knowledge of the date format - hence I thought it preferable.
My style would move the addition and subtraction around as below
I assumed one would want the last day of the month for any called date
otherwise uncomment line 2
SUBROUT
d work.
Cheers,
Wol
George
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Wols Lists
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To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
Subject: Re: [U2] End of Month date routine
On 05/12/11
: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org
[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Wols Lists
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 3:05 PM
To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
Subject: Re: [U2] End of Month date routine
On 05/12/11 19:03, Wjhonson wrote:
Does someone have a routine that, no
.MO,'DD')
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From: Wjhonson
To: u2-users
Sent: Mon, Dec 5, 2011 2:15 pm
Subject: Re: [U2] End of Month date routine
arco, this is absolutely brilliant.
nd I reserve the use of the word "brilliant", for code that truly transcends
ormal space-time
'm n
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From: Marco Antonio Rojas Castro
To: u2-users
Sent: Mon, Dec 5, 2011 12:49 pm
Subject: Re: [U2] End of Month date routine
ODAY = DATE()
OM = TODAY - TODAY"DD" + 32
OM = EOM - EOM"DD"
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From: wjhon...@aol.c
MONTH = 1 ; YEAR += 1
END ELSE MONTH += 1
FIRST.OF.MONTH = ICONV(MONTH:"/01/":YEAR,'D')
END.OF.MONTH.DATE = FIRST.OF.MONTH-1
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From: Colin Alfke
To: 'U2 Users List'
Sent: Mon, Dec 5, 2011 12:50 p
Actually that will not work for a date near the end of the month. Was trying to
be too smart
> -Original Message-
> From: Phil Walker
> Sent: Tuesday, 6 December 2011 10:47 a.m.
> To: 'U2 Users List'
> Subject: RE: [U2] End of Month date routine
>
>
Sent: Tuesday, 6 December 2011 10:29 a.m.
> To: 'U2 Users List'
> Subject: Re: [U2] End of Month date routine
>
> Agreed. That code is almost verbatim what I have used for 20+ years, and it
> has never failed me.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> John Israe
Charlie Noah
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 4:27 PM
To: U2 Users List
Subject: Re: [U2] End of Month date routine
I vote for the method (already posted) which will work every time on any
MV system, any flavor, any emulation: find the first day of the next
month and subtract 1. Messing around with adding
working
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From: George Gallen
To: U2 Users List
Sent: Mon, Dec 5, 2011 12:10 pm
Subject: Re: [U2] End of Month date routine
Haven't checked it, but what happens on 01/31 by adding 31, it should take you
arch, backing up
Will give you 02/xx (28 or 29)?
Ge
ad the "01" into
> it or something
> so i just get 31 at that point.
>
> I think you were expecting that it would take "12 2011" and make it into "12
> 01 2011" or whatever
> but it's not working
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Messag
ONV(15737, "D") = "31 JAN 2011"
* WORKS FINE - UDT 7.1.7 (AIX)
> Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 15:52:40 -0500
> From: dlaan...@hubbardsupply.com
> To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
> Subject: Re: [U2] End of Month date routine
>
> No, this will fail on January 31st, eve
users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org
[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Marco Antonio
Rojas Castro
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 3:49 PM
To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
Subject: Re: [U2] End of Month date routine
TODAY = DATE()
EOM = TODAY - TODAY"DD" + 32
EOM = EOM -
Doesn't work for me :( Tried on UD 7.1.6 and UD 6.0.12.
It works for December, but I changed it to March and it gave me January 3rd.
UniData does have a nice function LAST_DAY(x) for using in virtual
attributes to return the last day of the month for the date passed to it.
hth
Colin
Calgary, Can
TODAY = DATE()
EOM = TODAY - TODAY"DD" + 32
EOM = EOM - EOM"DD"
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> From: wjhon...@aol.com
> Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 15:16:02 -0500
> Subject: Re: [U2] End of Month date routine
>
>
> Doesn't work on my system A
g.org
[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Robert Houben
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 3:30 PM
To: U2 Users List
Subject: Re: [U2] End of Month date routine
But that would break the rhyme... :o
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[mailto:u2-users
But that would break the rhyme... :o
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of George Gallen
Sent: December-05-11 12:26 PM
To: U2 Users List
Subject: Re: [U2] End of Month date routine
Damn February...We need
...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Dave Laansma
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 3:21 PM
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Subject: Re: [U2] End of Month date routine
Ditto.
Sincerely,
David Laansma
IT Manager
Hubbard Supply Co.
Direct: 810-342-7143
Office: 810-234-8681
Fax: 810-234-6142
www.hubbardsupply.com
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users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of George Gallen
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 3:10 PM
To: U2 Users List
Subject: Re: [U2] End of Month date routine
Haven't checked it, but what happens on 01/31 by adding 31, it should
take you March, backing up
Will give you 02/xx (28
make it into "12 01
2011" or whatever
but it's not working
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From: George Gallen
To: U2 Users List
Sent: Mon, Dec 5, 2011 12:10 pm
Subject: Re: [U2] End of Month date routine
Haven't checked it, but what happens on 01/31 by adding 31, it should t
onday, December 05, 2011 3:05 PM
To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
Subject: Re: [U2] End of Month date routine
On 05/12/11 19:03, Wjhonson wrote:
>
> Does someone have a routine that, no matter what day you run it, returns the
> End of Month Date ?
> (Assume the end of month date, is th
On 05/12/11 19:03, Wjhonson wrote:
Does someone have a routine that, no matter what day you run it, returns the
End of Month Date ?
(Assume the end of month date, is the calendar end of month date not some
screwy business date)
Hmmm... no-one seems to have done my approach ...
TODAY = @DATE
Thanks to everyone who responded
This is with what I ended up
MONTH = OCONV(DATE(),'DM') ; YEAR = OCONV(DATE(),'DY')
IF MONTH = 12 THEN MONTH = 1 ; YEAR += 1 ELSE MONTH += 1
FIRST.OF.MONTH = ICONV(MONTH:"/01/":YEAR,'D')
END.OF.MONTH.DATE = FIRST.OF.MONTH-1
The only
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charles_shaf...@ntn-bower.com
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 2:22 PM
To: U2 Users List
Subject: Re: [U2] End of Month date routine
Here's one I use.
TODAY = OCONV(DATE(), "D4/")
MO = FIELD(TODAY, "/", 1)
YR = FIELD(TODAY, "/",
Analyst
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From: Wjhonson
To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org,
Date: 12/05/2011 01:03 PM
Subject:[U2] End of Month date routine
Sent by:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org
Does someone have a routine that, no matter what day you run it, returns
the End o
though the string is '01'
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From: John Thompson
To: U2 Users List
Sent: Mon, Dec 5, 2011 11:16 am
Subject: Re: [U2] End of Month date routine
This may not be the cleanest way, but, we use it here and it works.
used ABORT, so some parent program or para
ayNextMonth = Iconv(Month:"/01/":Year,'D') ;* assumes MM/DD/
> format
> LastDayThisMonth = FirstDayNextMonth - 1 ;* self-explanatory.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:
> u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] O
Using NEXT.MONTH and proper YEAR:
ICONV(NEXT.MONTH:'/01/':YEAR)-1
will make the trick.
HP
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Wjhonson wrote:
>
> Does someone have a routine that, no matter what day you run it, returns
> the End of Month Date ?
> (Assume the end of month date, is the calendar en
assumes MM/DD/ format
LastDayThisMonth = FirstDayNextMonth - 1 ;* self-explanatory.
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Wjhonson
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 2:03 PM
To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
Subject: [U2] En
Does someone have a routine that, no matter what day you run it, returns the
End of Month Date ?
(Assume the end of month date, is the calendar end of month date not some
screwy business date)
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