RE: Why RPG IV ....

["Joel Fritz" <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think I've mentioned this before, but I still think it's a good idea.
Move the earth's orbit so that the year is either 256 or 512 days
exactly.  There might be some side effects, but I figure if we're able
to move the earth's orbit, we can deal with the side effects. <g>

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From: rpg400-l-bounces+jfritz=sharperimage.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces+jfritz=sharperimage.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Tony Carolla
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 2:02 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: Why RPG IV ....

<snip>
> We screwed ourselves when we first started using 2 digit
representations!
</snip>

Correction.  We screwed ourselves when we started limiting the digits in
dates period, and believing that there was something in between days and
years.  Dates should be a huge, single number, and for now, during this
time when the rotation count of the earth, during one revolution around
the sun is 365.25, we should have a base-365.25 numbering system for
dates.  Weeks?  Months?  Theres no such thing.
Only even fractional amounts of days and years.

But there's too much madness and too many desk calendars on accountant's
desks for that to go over.


On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 16:43:27 -0500, Jon Paris <Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>  >> If I move a *ISO *loval to *MDY field I would expect a *MDY *loval

> of 01/01/40 from 0001-01-01.
>
> In which case it would be impossible to ever move a birth date of
> 1/1/40 to a four digit date field!  Since you would have to have the
> same rule in reverse.
>
> We screwed ourselves when we first started using 2 digit
representations!
>
> Jon Paris
> Partner400
> www.Partner400.com
>
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