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Re: Date Comparison yyyymm

On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 8:19 AM, Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I remember hearing a panel lecture from a companies experience when they
did their Y2K project. They went to seven digit dates. When it came time
for questions I asked them if they are going to convert again when users
try to query that data?
Dead silence.

At my first job, which was at a software vendor, all their dates were
5-digit Julian anyway. It was a closed system, with no user visibility
to naked PFs or tables. So the move to 7-digit Julian was the least
disruptive both to them and to their users.

John Y.

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