Re: Date data type question

[Glenn Ericson <Glenn-Ericson@xxxxxxx>]

At 11:52 AM 10/8/98 -0400, you wrote:
>I'm reengineering an application in RPG/IV, and I am using date data
>types extensively. A big problem I'm having is processing birth dates.
>Many people I'm processing have birth dates before 1940, so I get the
>error "The year portion of a Date or Timestamp value is not in the range
>1940 to 2039." Is there anything I can do to use these dates with the
>date data type or must I still use a numeric format? Running V3R7.
>
>Thanks,
>Loyd Goodbar
>
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Loyd a few items
1.  get off of V3R7 before its support expires and you own  all these
problems.

2. this sounds  more like a six digit date problem with a system pivot
[window] date of GE 1940.  Under  this scenario  you cannot have anyone
born  or a transaction between  1900- 1939

3.  it is possible to come up with another problematical situation were  it
becomes 1928- 2053[I think] 


Glenn
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