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Don't know about forever - but the formalization of the format took place as part of the Y2K prep work for the system. Thinking was that most people used a packed 6 for their date fields and that those would work just fine as a 7 digit field since the leading digit was already guaranteed to be zero since 6 and 7 digit packed fields occupy the same number of bytes.


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On Jun 25, 2010, at 1:40 PM, midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

A century field or a century character in CYYMMDD format has been around
forever, to the best of my recollection.


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