RE: 2039 cutoff

No, some fixes just delayed it.




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Date:
11/28/2011 02:03 PM
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RE: 2039 cutoff
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Didn't we take care of all this sort of thing in 1999??? (:

Paul E Musselman
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Subject: 2039 cutoff

If one tries to convert 2040-01-31 to MMDDYY it aborts. Documented here
at
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v7r1m0/topic/db2/rbafzch2date.htm

and elsewhere.

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?


Rob Berendt