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I would think 6 digit date like this could be done as long as it was non ambiguous to the end user. From a systems I/O view a windowing technique might be used to handle the date as it was meant in context. Depends on your tool and methodology for the Application(s). "Know thy Data" What if you have a birthday in 1939? On or about the pivot year? Glenn PS sometimes Data structures work well in splitting logic here. ___________________________________________________ Glenn Ericson, Phoenix Consulting P O Box 701164 East Elmhurst NY 11370-3164 USA Ph. 718 898 9805 Fx. 718 446 1150 AS/400 & Year 2000- - Solutions © 1997copyright, all rights reserved ____________________________________________________ At 07:54 PM 6/5/97 +0000, you wrote: >One exception that you might as well state right up front: birthdays will >be shown on screen with 8 digits. > >Also any other date that can be previous to 1940 or after 2039. The >screen really belches if you throw up a date of October 25th, 1936 as >10/25/36 and then read it back in as 10/25/36. You'll get either a new >date of 20381025 or a date error saying you are outside of the range. > > >In <3396D9C0.342F@earthlink.net>, on 06/05/97 > at 10:22 AM, Susan Durrie <sed1@earthlink.net> said: > ># 2) On all screens and reports, we will leave the date as a 6 digit >#representation (unless an exception is absolutely necessary). > >-- >----------------------------------------------------------- >boothm@earth.goddard.edu >----------------------------------------------------------- > >* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * >* This is the Midrange System Mailing List! To submit a new message, * >* send your mail to "MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com". To unsubscribe from * >* this list send email to MAJORDOMO@midrange.com and specify * >* 'unsubscribe MIDRANGE-L' in the body of your message. Questions * >* should be directed to the list owner / operator: david@midrange.com * >* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * This is the Midrange System Mailing List! To submit a new message, * * send your mail to "MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com". To unsubscribe from * * this list send email to MAJORDOMO@midrange.com and specify * * 'unsubscribe MIDRANGE-L' in the body of your message. Questions * * should be directed to the list owner / operator: david@midrange.com * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
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