Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncrlnk!ncr-sd!hp-sdd!hplabs!pyramid!infmx!aland From: aland@infmx.UUCP (Dr. Scump) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: Informix 4gl "construct" statement broken Summary: old problem - fixed Message-ID: <467@infmx.UUCP> Date: 27 Sep 88 03:29:45 GMT References: <471@pan.UUCP> <1214@cod.NOSC.MIL> Organization: Informix Software Inc., Menlo Park, CA. Lines: 30 In article <1214@cod.NOSC.MIL>, dberg@cod.NOSC.MIL (David I. Berg) writes: > In article <471@pan.UUCP>, jw@pan.UUCP (Jamie Watson) writes: > > The Informix 4gl "construct" statement is broken in such a way as to render > > it useless anywhere the "DBDATE" environment variable is used to change the > > default date format. > > I echo Watson's concern. My users can use military format for entering > dates (eg. 13sep88 or 13 sep 88 etc.) on INPUT but must use mm/dd/yy > on queries. > > David I. Berg (dberg@nosc.mil) > GENISYS Information Systems, Inc., 4250 Pacific Hwy #118, San Diego, CA 92110 > UUCP: {ihnp4 akgua decvax dcdwest ucbvax}!sdcsvax!noscvax!dberg Sounds like you both may have old versions. This was reported over a year ago and was fixed two versions ago (in 1.10.00). I tested it in the current version of I4GL (1.10.03) and 1.10.00 and it seems to work fine using a DBDATE of "dmy2." There was a problem in an older version (1.00.05) that this would occur if DBDATE was used to change the order of month/day/year (a common need in Europe). Regards, Alan Denney -- Alan S. Denney | Informix Software, Inc. | {pyramid|uunet}!infmx!aland Disclaimer: These opinions are mine alone. If I am caught or killed, the secretary will disavow any knowledge of my actions. Santos' 4th Law: "Anything worth fighting for is worth fighting *dirty* for"