TIMFMT (Time Format) keyword in printer files

The format of the keyword is:

TIMFMT(time-format)

The following table describes the valid time formats and their default separators.

Format name Time format parameter Time format and separator Field length Example Hours:Minutes:Seconds *HMS hh:mm:ss 8 14:00:00 International Standards Organization *ISO hh.mm.ss 8 14.00.00 IBM USA Standard *USA hh:mm AM or hh:mm PM 8 2:00 pm IBM European Standard *EUR hh.mm.ss 8 14.00.00 Japanese Industrial Standard Christian Era *JIS hh:mm:ss 8 14:00:00

If you do not specify the TIMFMT keyword, the default is *ISO.

If you specify the time-format parameter value as *ISO, *USA, *EUR, or *JIS, you cannot specify the TIMSEP keyword. These formats have fixed separators.

The TIMFMT keyword overrides the job attribute for a time field. It does not change the system default.

It is the responsibility of the high-level language and the application to format the time field according to the format specified for the TIMFMT keyword and use the separators specified on the TIMSEP keyword. The system does not format fields on output. The system validates the time field on input according to the format that the TIMFMT keyword specifies and the separator that the TIMSEP keyword specifies.

Option indicators are not valid for this keyword, although option indicators can condition the field for which it is specified.

Example

The following example shows how to specify the TIMFMT keyword.

|...+....1....+....2....+....3....+....4....+....5....+....6....+....7....+....8
00010A
00020A          R RECORD
00030A            TIMFLD1         T  B  5  2TIMFMT(*ISO)
00040A            TIMFLD2         T  B  5 22TIMFMT(*USA)
00050A            TIMFLD3         T  B  5 42TIMFMT(*HMS) TIMSEP(',')
     A

If you want to display 2 o'clock p.m., the following values appear where RECORD1 is written.

TIMFLD1    14.00.00
TIMFLD2    02:00 PM
TIMFLD3    14,00,00