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How to format a date to automatically display day of week or month of year!
If in painting a date field onto an OUTPUT image, you edit the display masks with the Day-of-the-Week or the Month-of-the-Year, you will get appropriate substitutions. For example:

A display mask of "Monday January 05, 04:03 am" will (on 9/16/96) yield a displayed Date of "Monday September 16, 11:48 am".

A display mask of "05 January 0807" will (on 9/16/96) yield a displayed Date of "16 September 1996".

Also, the 'SET DATE' ilf command can extract the Day-of-the-Week or the Month-of-the-Year, as documented in ...

            http://www.appx.com/manuals/appl-dsgn/drm282.html

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