Re: Year 2000

[boothm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

My only point, apparently not made, is that Ldate isn't ready yet.

We've all been tripped up before with un-ready technology.  This is no
time to rely on the Ldate field as the cornerstone to the largest
programming problem we will ever face in our lifetime.  Maybe the problems
will be fixed in two years, maybe the performance will get better, maybe
we all have some basic fallacies in our systems.

In any event, Ldate isn't ready yet.  It doesn't work the same way in DDS,
in CL, and in RPG.  As Al mentioned, not being allowed a zero or null
field is certainly not a help either  -  blank dates are not a new
concept.  Who wants a screen full of 01/01/01 where there really should
just be blank dates?  Who wants the extra coding to make 01/01/0001 =
*blanks?  

In <970608115927_-429725210@emout13.mail.aol.com>, on 06/08/97 
   at 11:59 AM, ConnectY2K@aol.com said:

#Booth:  
#get us back to your issue directly.

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