TypeCobolTypeDate

Type Date

Date is an intrinsic type of TypeCobol. A Date use the format YYYYMMDD.

You can use the type Date just like any other TypeCobol type.

01 Identifier Type Date.

The Date type is defined like this:

01 Date Typedef strong.
  05 YYYY  pic X(04).
  05 MM    pic X(02).
  05 DD    pic X(02).

Technical note

Date is a Cobol 85 keyword. However we wanted to reuse this as a type name because the word Date just fit perfectly for our need. We didn’t want to name our type TCDate or something like that.