Re: Date field's and their file space usage.

I remember a funny story about a COBOL worker brought out of retirement to 
do Y2K work.  Got so swamped that he went into cryogenic suspension until 
the Y2K mess was over.  Something went wrong and they finally unfroze him 
around the year 9999.  And then it was to fix the Y10K issue and he knew 
COBOL.
There was more to it.  Something about the first person talking to him 
being the President - which was really a large screen image of Bill Gates.

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The MI architecture does provide for dates prior to January 1 0001.  The
database implementation of Date is to support a range of dates from 
January
1 0001 to December 31 9999 so as to match the support found on other
platforms (ISO standards for example), but the system certainly could
handle earlier (and later) dates if it had to :)
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Y10K ???


Dave Parnin
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The MI architecture does provide for dates prior to January 1 0001.  The
database implementation of Date is to support a range of dates from 
January
1 0001 to December 31 9999 so as to match the support found on other
platforms (ISO standards for example), but the system certainly could
handle earlier (and later) dates if it had to :)





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I find date storage a fascinating topic!  This is interesting, because
it would seem that the earliest date available (even though only used
in a 'scholarly' sense), would be 0001-01-01, or January 1, 0001.  If
the Scaliger numbers go back to, basically January 1, -4713, then why
don't the allowed values for a Date field go back that far?


On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:01:29 -0600, Bruce Vining <bvining@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
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>
> > Date fields are all stored internally as a 4-byte integer. The value
> stored
> > is the number of days since January 1, 0001 or October 14, 1582, I'm
not
> > sure which it is.
>
> A minor point but date fields are actually stored using Scaliger numbers
> which have a base of January 1 4713 BCE.
>
> October 14 1582 is the base date for Lilian numbers which are used by 
the
> ILE CEE Date APIs.
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