Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
Messaging and ESB

writeDate procedure

Writes a date value as String data to the body of a StreamMessage.

Syntax

PROCEDURE writeDate. DEFINE INPUT PARAMETER value AS DATE.

Applies to

Message objects

Notes

The procedure actually writes value as a DATETIME-TZ value, adding default time and time zone information:
A time of 12:00AM (midnight).
The default time zone of the client application.
If the message might be consumed by an application in a different time zone from that of the sending application, the 4GL programmer must ensure that the receiving application can interpret the value correctly.
The format of the DATETIME-TZ value is a subset of the ISO8601 format.
An error is returned if the Unknown value (?) is specified.

See also

createStreamMessage procedure, writeBoolean procedure, writeByte procedure, writeBytesFromRaw procedure, writeChar procedure, writeDate procedure, writeDateTime procedure, writeDateTime-TZ procedure, writeDouble procedure, writeFloat procedure, writeInt procedure, writeLong procedure, writeLongString procedure, writeShort procedure, writeString procedure, endOfStream function, moveToNext procedure, readBytesToRaw procedure, readChar function, readDate function, readDateTime function, readDateTime-TZ function, readDecimal function, readInt function, readLogical function, readLongString function, readLongStringCP function

For more information, see the "StreamMessage" section.