Re: Date Field Printing

["Nelson C. Smith" <ncsmith@xxxxxxxx>]

You are right to question the original statement.  As far as the date data
type goes, 0001-01-01 does not indicate the absense of a date, since that is
a quite valid date.

If it is null capable, it could be NULL and also contain 0001-01-01 (or any
other valid date.  Whether nulls are used or some arbitrary definition like
"0001-01-01 equals no entry", you still have to test it.


-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Berendt <rob@dekko.com>
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 2:32 PM
Subject: RE: Date Field Printing


>I question 'the absence of a date is stored as 0001-01-01'.  Isn't
>it stored as *null instead?  Does *null print this way?  Or is this
>the effort of picking some arbitrary date to indicate the lack thereof?


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