How to go back to past date in COBOL?

tapas84 · New User Joined: 12 Mar 2009 Posts: 23 Location: Bangalore

Hi ,
I have a requirement in which i need to go 5 years back and need to add 1 day to that day.I am getting the date from a file in mm,dd yyyy format.

For clear picture pls see the below example...

If i am getting the date as June 30,2009,then

5year-period-start-date = June 30,2009 - 5 years + 1=july 1,2004(desired result)

Anuj Dhawan · Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 4:49 pm

Hi,

Let's start with -- What logic do you have in mind?

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 4:51 pm

Here is a listing of the LE (language environment) manuals.
pick your release/ops-sys version.

the manuals list routines that you can call to perform date calculations.

If you do a search on this forum, you will find many threads discussion date manipulation.

tapas84 · New User Joined: 12 Mar 2009 Posts: 23 Location: Bangalore

Hi Dick,
Thanks for your input.I got my logic.Thanks again.

kumar40322 · New User Joined: 25 Apr 2009 Posts: 15 Location: Hyderabad

Hi

As u got the logic, can u show me the logic?

sakthikumarT · New User Joined: 09 Apr 2009 Posts: 50 Location: Bangalore

Could you able to explain your logic.?