Re: L-date fields -- MIDRANGE-L

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on 09/15/97 at 08:48 PM, lgoodbar@tecinfo.com (lg - Loyd Goodbar) said:

 If today is 1997/09/15, and the user enters 091597, the
system will "assume" 1997; however, if the user enters 091697, the
computer "assumes" the previous century because the date is "after"
today. 

Unless of course it is a "date-due", or the "expiration date", or
on&on&on.  To my mind this is the problem we face with trying to guess
centuries.  By the time we have figured out a common strategy and reached
a state of concordance on the issue it'll be half-way thru 1998, and down
to 500 days.

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Booth Martin       Contract Programming, Inc.
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