Re: Date range

Infinium stores dates as 8.0 numeric (CCYYMMDD), 6.0 'hundred year format'
(goofiest thing I've ever seen) and 10A 'edited', complete with seperators.
For every date. Tons of dates.

On 12/7/06, Mark Allen <scprideandms@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Then theres those of us who have a "package" where there are:

1.  True Date fields
2.   6 digit date fields (2 Flavors)
      a.  YYMMDD
      b.  MMDDYY
3.  7 digit date fields (1st pos=1 then 2000 1st pos=0 then 1900)
4.  4 seperate fields (again 2 Flavors)
     a. C, YY, MM, DD
     b. CC,YY,MM,DD

and joy of joys there are files that have ALL 4 (6 if you count the
flavors)
depending on the date field..................



On 12/7/06, DeLong, Eric <EDeLong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> IBM has already provided a means to deal with this issue.  All we need
to
> do is NEVER use six-digit date formats.  However, there are RPG shops
that
> cling to these unsafe formats because they fear that the users cannot
> understand that they need to enter two additional digits on their date
entry
> fields.  IMO, this is one of the most pathetic demonstrations of FUD
around.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Karen L Hodge
> Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 9:46 AM
> To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Date range
>
>
> You guys must not be considering date-of-birth.
> This logic would never work for anyone born before 1940.................
>
> If you were born 12/31/39 and the system would assume that meant
> 2039...................
>
>
> Karen Hodge
> Senior System Analyst
> Genesys Health System
> 1000 Healthpark Blvd, Grand Blanc, Mi 48439
> Office 810.606.5180, Fax 810.606.7204
> khodge@xxxxxxxxxxx
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