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6.2.1.3 DATE, DATE YYYYMMDD, DAY, DAY YYYYDDD, DAY-OF-WEEK, and TIME

X The conceptual data items DATE, DATE YYYYMMDD, DAY, DAY YYYYDDD, DAY-OF-WEEK, and TIME implicitly have USAGE DISPLAY. Because these are conceptual data items, they cannot be described in the COBOL program.
DATE

X Has the implicit PICTURE 9(6). If the DATEPROC compiler option is in
X effect, then the returned value has implicit DATE FORMAT YYXXXX, and
X identifier-2 must be defined with this date format.
The sequence of data elements (from left to right) is: 



         2 digits for the year
         2 digits for the month
         2 digits for the day
Thus, 27 April 1995 is expressed as: 950427

X DATE YYYYMMDD

X Has the implicit PICTURE 9(8). If the DATEPROC compiler option is in
X effect, then the returned value has implicit DATE FORMAT YYYYXXXX, and
X identifier-2 must be defined with this date format.

X The sequence of data elements (from left to right) is: 



 X       4 digits for the year
 X       2 digits for the month
 X       2 digits for the day

X Thus, 27 April 1995 is expressed as: 19950427
DAY

X Has the implicit PICTURE 9(5). If the DATEPROC compiler option is in
X effect, then the returned value has implicit DATE FORMAT YYXXX, and
X identifier-2 must be defined with this date format.
The sequence of data elements (from left to right) is: 



         2 digits for the year
         3 digits for the day
Thus, 27 April 1995 is expressed as: 95117

X DAY YYYYDDD

X Has the implicit PICTURE 9(7). If the DATEPROC compiler option is in
X effect, then the returned value has implicit DATE FORMAT YYYYXXX, and
X identifier-2 must be defined with this date format.

X The sequence of data elements (from left to right) is: 



 X       4 digits for the year
 X       3 digits for the day

X Thus, 27 April 1995 is expressed as: 1995117
DAY-OF-WEEK
Has the implicit PICTURE 9(1).
The single data element represents the day of the week according to the following values: 



         1 represents Monday                    5 represents Friday
         2 represents Tuesday                   6 represents Saturday
         3 represents Wednesday                 7 represents Sunday
         4 represents Thursday
Thus, Wednesday is expressed as: 3
TIME
Has the implicit PICTURE 9(8).
The sequence of data elements (from left to right) is: 



         2 digits for hour of day
         2 digits for minute of hour
         2 digits for second of minute
         2 digits for hundredths of second
Thus, 2:41 PM is expressed as: 14410000

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