Re: Date range

["Michael Ryan" <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Infinium stores dates as 8.0 numeric (CCYYMMDD), 6.0 'hundred year format'
(goofiest thing I've ever seen) and 10A 'edited', complete with seperators.
For every date. Tons of dates.

On 12/7/06, Mark Allen <scprideandms@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Then theres those of us who have a "package" where there are:
>
> 1.  True Date fields
> 2.   6 digit date fields (2 Flavors)
>       a.  YYMMDD
>       b.  MMDDYY
> 3.  7 digit date fields (1st pos=1 then 2000 1st pos=0 then 1900)
> 4.  4 seperate fields (again 2 Flavors)
>      a. C, YY, MM, DD
>      b. CC,YY,MM,DD
>
> and joy of joys there are files that have ALL 4 (6 if you count the
> flavors)
> depending on the date field..................
>
>
>
> On 12/7/06, DeLong, Eric <EDeLong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > IBM has already provided a means to deal with this issue.  All we need
> to
> > do is NEVER use six-digit date formats.  However, there are RPG shops
> that
> > cling to these unsafe formats because they fear that the users cannot
> > understand that they need to enter two additional digits on their date
> entry
> > fields.  IMO, this is one of the most pathetic demonstrations of FUD
> around.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Karen L Hodge
> > Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 9:46 AM
> > To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: Date range
> >
> >
> > You guys must not be considering date-of-birth.
> > This logic would never work for anyone born before 1940.................
> >
> > If you were born 12/31/39 and the system would assume that meant
> > 2039...................
> >
> >
> > 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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