Your COBOL program needs to generate reports with date and time stamps in a specific format for different regions. How would you approach formatting date and time values for these reports?
- Implement a custom date and time formatting subroutine
- Leverage platform-specific formatting functions
- Use COBOL FORMAT statement with customized date and time picture clauses
- Use COBOL intrinsic function FORMAT-TIME
To format date and time values for reports, you can use the COBOL FORMAT statement with customized date and time picture clauses. This allows you to control the output format based on the specific requirements of different regions.
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