RE: Base year

There is no automatic way to fix this. You may have people born in 1901
or 2001. There's no way for the computer to determine what's right.
You'll just have to write a routine based on best guess, and check the
data.  


Mark Walter
Senior Programmer/Analyst
IBM Certified RPG Developer
Hainey Business Systems
(717) 771-2362
mwalter@xxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.hbs-inc.com
 

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Karen L
Hodge/MIS/Genesys
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 3:03 PM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Base year

I am trying to convert a mm/dd/yy character field that contains date of
birth into a ccyymmdd numeric field.

When the character field contains a 2-digit year that is less than 40,
and it is moved to the numeric field, which has a 4-digit year, the
century used is 2000 and the 4-digit year becomes 2039, which is wrong.

Does anyone know of a way to change the base default for this?
If not, does anyone know of an easy way to correct this?


Thank you,

Karen Hodge
Senior System Analyst
Genesys Health System
1000 Healthpark Blvd, Grand Blanc, Mi 48439 Office 810.606.5180, Fax
810.606.7204 khodge@xxxxxxxxxxx

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