Syntax
CALL "utcdtf.wbb",tojul,format$,text$,juldate
Many Business Basic applications store dates in a string format rather than a julian number. Common formats include fixed digits, such as YYMMDD, and packed decimal, requiring a special formula to unpack into the month, day, and year elements. This low-level routine is designed to convert various formats to and from julian values.
The legal values for format$ match those for date fields in data templates. See the Data Templates section for more information.
tojul is set to 0 to convert from juldate to text$, and 1 to convert from text$ to juldate.
format$ can be set to any of the following:
mdy MMDDYY
mdyy MMDDYYYY
ymd YYMMDD
yymd YYYYMMDD
dmy DDMMYY
dmyy DDMMYYYY
aon ADD+ON date format
soa State of the Art (MAS90) date format
text$ stores the stored text version of the date, and juldate stores the julian integer version of the date.