Re: Premenos and the date data type window.

>In working with date data type within Premenos, and thanks to some funky
>dates from one of our trading partners, I have learned that Premenos
>uses a date conversion window of 1970-2069.  Since this is different
>from the RPG supported 1940-2039, we had problems.  After talking to
>Premenos, some of their senior development people stated that IBM is
>inconsistent and uses both date range windows.  My question is, where is
>the 1970-2069 window used??  I would like to avoid this design pothole
>in the future BEFORE falling into it!!
>
>Thanks in advance,     Bob Dobrowolski
>                                       Menlo Logistics, Portland, OR

Date windows of 1940-2039, 1970-2069, or any other fixed window are used by
those who do not care if their code dies in the future.  I hope I am alive
in the year 2039 to see how IBM explains why we have to go through this Y2K
thing a second time in the same century.


Charlie Massoglia, Massoglia Technical Consulting, Inc.
PO Box 1065, Okemos, MI 48854, USA
517-676-9700  Fax: 517-676-1006  EMAIL: cmassoglia@voyager.net


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