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> We screwed ourselves when we first started using 2 digit representations!
</snip>

Correction.  We screwed ourselves when we started limiting the digits
in dates period, and believing that there was something in between
days and years.  Dates should be a huge, single number, and for now,
during this time when the rotation count of the earth, during one
revolution around the sun is 365.25, we should have a base-365.25
numbering system for dates.  Weeks?  Months?  Theres no such thing. 
Only even fractional amounts of days and years.

But there's too much madness and too many desk calendars on
accountant's desks for that to go over.


On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 16:43:27 -0500, Jon Paris <Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  >> If I move a *ISO *loval to *MDY field I would expect a *MDY *loval of
> 01/01/40 from 0001-01-01.
> 
> In which case it would be impossible to ever move a birth date of 1/1/40 to
> a four digit date field!  Since you would have to have the same rule in
> reverse.
> 
> We screwed ourselves when we first started using 2 digit representations!
> 
> Jon Paris
> Partner400
> www.Partner400.com
> 
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