The prowtbd( ) function writes a date value to a DATE field in a shared buffer.

On successful completion, prowtbd( ) returns 0; otherwise, it returns a non-zero value:

Syntax

int
prowtbd ( pbufnam, fhandle, index, year, month, day,
          unknown )
  char *pbufnam; 
  int   fhandle;
  int   index;
  int   year;
  int   month;
  int   day;
  int   unknown;
pbufnam
This input parameter points to the name of the specified shared buffer. You supply the name from your OpenEdge application.
fhandle
This input parameter is the field handle that profldix( ) returns for the specified field.
index
This input parameter specifies an index value for an array field. If the field is not an array, you must set the value of index to 0.
year
This input parameter contains the year value for the specified DATE field.
month
This input parameter contains the month value for the specified DATE field.
day
This input parameter contains the day value for the specified DATE field.
unknown
If this input parameter contains the value 1, the Unknown value (?) is assigned to the variable. If this input parameter contains the value 0, the input value contained in year, month, and day is assigned to the variable.

See Also:

profldix( ) - Return Field Handle, prordbd( ) - Read DATE Field, prowtbc( ) - Write CHARACTER Field, prowtbi( ) - Write INTEGER Field, prowtbl( ) - Write LOGICAL Field, prowtbn( ) - Write DECIMAL Field, prowtbr( ) - Write RECID Field