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It is a field used for when an account will expire. For fulltime employees it is set to 12/31/9999 (highest value allowed) since fulltime employees are hired forever or until HR says they left. Part-timers and special accounts are set to a known exit date that is know when they are hired so we can re-verify the account is still needed or delete it

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From: java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Gibbs
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 11:28 AM
To: Java Programming on and around the iSeries / AS400
Subject: Re: jt400 timestamp issue

Mike Cunningham wrote:
Why would the year 9999 be an invalid year? It will occur eventually

But you're not using it as a real year, are you? You're using it as a
symbolic value to indicate something special.

Or are your sales forecasts going out that far? :)

david

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