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date field
Category Syntax
Subject Cobol
Any of the following:
The conceptual data items DATE, DATE YYYYMMDD, DAY, and DAY YYYYDDD of the ACCEPT statement.
The result of certain arithmetic operations. For details, see Arithmetic with date fields.
The term date field refers to both expanded date field and windowed date field. See also nondate.