Re: 2039 cutoff

On Nov 28, 2011, at 1:00 PM, midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Is there any talk about sliding that window?

Since we've already hit a hiccup are some people considering dropping
using built in techniques to convert from 8 to 6 digit date fields and use
custom code?

There was talk in Rochester some years ago Rob but I've heard nothing recently. Bruce Vining might have a better handle on that as he would have undoubtedly been involved in any discussions.

I've long believed that "real" dates are the way to go - but many people use packed fields for dates and therefore found that the century flag worked for them as they did not need to increase the storage usage. Neither does a date field for that matter but other considerations come into play with "real" dates.

Jon Paris

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