RE: Why RPG IV ....

Eeeeyywww. Lol.

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I had a captains log at the weekend, blocked the toilet for 2 days...but
that's another story...
Hehe!

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Captain's Log Stardate 28,628,13.
Hehe.

Ron Power
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<snip>
> 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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