Date Field Printing

[Joe Giusto <JGiusto@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

O.K.  Now that we have true date fields and have begun using them in our
shop, we have come across an interesting problem.

In the old way, when printing dates which had not been entered yet,  nothing
shows up because of zero suppression on the Y edit code.  

Now the absence of a date is stored as 0001-01-01 and that's what prints in
place of what used to be nothing (or blank).  It is confusing to the users
and every time someone new sees it we have to explain it again. 

I have begun testing date fields to be printed and using indicators (yuck)
to condition the field to print or not print. 

There's got to be a better way.  Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thank you,
 

Joe Giusto II
Patuxent Publishing Company
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