how to change date variable "year" to yy only

[zeroendless]

I tried the method and sample from here and procomm plus help files, but can't seem to find a way to change the variable &Date and &Ltime year from yyyy to yy only

For instance,
strfmt datestring "%02d%02d%02d" iMonth iDay iYear
I changed the format to %02d or %d doesn't seem to affect the year format, it' still showing 04282003

i need a variable as in date format yy/mm/dd. simple as that, i am new to aspect. so, help me out here, aspect guru.

 

[zeroendless]

I meant I want variable in yymmdd no slash in between.

 

[knob]

Here is a script to do so. I broke up $DATE with multiple strtok commands since it already has the year in two-digit format instead of four-digit.

proc main
string sDay, sMonth, sYear, sDate
integer iDay, iMonth

sDate = $DATE
strtok sMonth sDate "/"
strtok sDay sDate "/"
strtok sYear sDate "/"
atoi sMonth iMonth
atoi sDay iDay
strfmt sDate "%s%02d%02d" sYear iMonth iDay
endproc

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[zeroendless]

it's just me? I'm still getting the year as yyyy when tested using usermsg. I'm using windows xp

 

[knob]

$DATE uses whatever the "short date" format in Control Panel (under Regional Settings) is configured as. My NT machine was set to MM/DD/YY, but it looks like the format is MM/DD/YYYY on XP. You can use the code above and add the line:

strdelete sDate 0 2

to delete the first two character (20 in this case) from the string. You should also be able to use this with your original code if you still have that in your script.


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