Re: Storing dates - revisted...

[Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx>]

We use what our packages use.  For new fields we use the real date fields.




CLEWIS@IQUEST.NET on 09/21/98 01:01:25 PM
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More questions on date storage !

You can change all of your old date storage in files from YY/MM/DD to
YYYY/MM/DD. Is that what folks are doing ?

We are on V4R1 and IBM is storing the QYEAR as YY and then there is
QCENTURY as 0=1920-1999 and 1=2000=2053.

It seems to me that YYYY/MM/DD is the better way to go (more
straightforward) as century really is "clumsy" )have to remember where 0
and 1 start and stop)... ??????/

Or does it matter ?

What's everyone doing ?

We have a software package that is storing Century as 2 digits and has
19 in it !!!

Thanks !

Chuck

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