Re: 2 digit YY on screens & 4 in DB -Reply

[John Carr <74711.77@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Date:   9/16/97  7:49 PM

RE:     Re: 2 digit YY on screens & 4 in DB -Reply

>>What would the program's understanding of the following be?
>>(or "What did the User Intend"?)

>>01/02/03
>>02/03/01
>>03/02/01

>>In which one did I think I was entering D/M/Y 
>>Which one was M/D/Y
>>Which one was Y/M/D
>>John Carr


David Morris said;

>Are you just playing the devils advocate or do you really change date
>formats between applications?  What is the reason?  Even our
>purchased packages force us to set a single date format.  All of our
>programs use the *JOB format (defaulted from QDATFMT) to
>determine the order of a date field.  
<Snip>
>
> There is no guessing.
>
>David Morris                      


Yes,  I was playing the devils advocate.  From my experiences for customers.

But,  If I asked for a show of hands from the consultants who subscribe 
to this list,  who have seen different formats in different programs, 
different systems, in the SAME shop I think it would be every 
consultant in the house.  

Your right, most software packages force you to a single date format,
however if you have multple 3rd party packages in house they might
be different from each other.  And often are.

I guess what I'm saying is, without standards(Like Fred Mitchell's UK)
and the communication with the user there is a lot of "Guessing" out 
there.


John Carr
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