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Re: Date Convesion

Kesterson, Randy wrote:
The problem with that is that many dates of one format are also valid for other formats. Say, 12/01/08. This would be a valid mmddyy date and a valid yymmdd date.

Not only that, but without seperators (say a numeric field) 120108 could also be the number of days since an epoch. For example, using the Unix epoch, this would be Fri, 02 Jan 1970 09:21:48 GMT.

A general conversion utility would have to know a great deal about the context of the date in order to make a reasonable guess. Even then, it is highly unlikely that such a system could be 100% correct.

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