Year 300 bug in ILE RPG or ...? (Again)

I believe the date system you are refering to is the Scaliger system
which is based off of Nov 24 -4713 (Gregorian).  This measures time in
terms of Julian days (not to be confused with the Julian calendar which
is completely different :-)) and, as a piece of trivia, is how DB2/400
Date datatype dates are currently physically stored on auxiliary storage.
Using a 4-byte integer representation, this gives a date range of
11.7 million years (and some people are worried about 2000 and 9999...).

Lilian (named after the astronomer Aloysius Lilius (or Lilio) who
advised Pope Gregory XIII back in the 16th century) is based off of
Oct 15 1582 (Gregorian), and is the basis for the ILE CEE Date APIs found
in the System API Reference.

Bruce Vining

>
>(snip)
>Astronomers use another date system (I *think* it's called Lilian, but am
>not sure.)  This system picks an arbitrarily old date (like 1 Jan 4000BCE)
>and calls it 1.  The date increments by one every day.  1 Jan 2000CE is
>2,451,545.  27 May 1998CE is 2,450,961.
>(snip)
>
>Buck Calabro
>

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