Re: Year 2000

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.
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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).
>
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