Re: Date manipulation

From: Howard Brazee (howard_at_brazee.net)
Date: 12/29/03 

Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 14:18:40 GMT

On 23-Dec-2003, thaneh@softwaresimple.com (Thane Hubbell) wrote:

> That means you invoke the function 6 times and in a date rollover you
> can get "trash". Not likely - but possible. Better I think would be
>
> Move Function Current-Date to current-date-def
>
> 01 Current-date-def.
> 03 CD-YYYY Pic 9(4).
> 03 C-MM pic 9(4).
> 03 C-DD Pic 9(4).
> 03 C-HH Pic 9(2).
> 03 C-MI Pic 9(2).
> 03 C-SS Pic 9(2).
>
>
>
> Display ....... using reference modififcation or just the fields of
> current-date-def instead of a reference modification of 6 invocations
> of the function!

Six invokes for a command used once in a program is nothing. Decisions such as
this should be made solely on maintenance efficiency, not run-time efficiency.