RE: Year 2000

["Cotes, Steven" <cotess@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> From:         Susan Durrie[SMTP:sed1@earthlink.net]
> Sent:         Thursday, June 05, 1997 7:22 AM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Year 2000
> 
        <snip>
        >Our greatest debate is whether or not to use native dates or to
        >go to an 8 digit numeric YYYYMMDD for our file date fields.

A number of tools (claim to) do most what you want, including the one
from ASC.
Almost all of them can convert to and populate 8 digit numeric fields.
The one feature I haven't seen is the option of converting to date data
types.
I'd like to know of one that does.
 - Steve Cotes
 - cotess@data-io.com
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