Re: Date Comparison yyyymm -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: Date Comparison yyyymm
From: John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 11:40:49 -0400
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On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 8:19 AM, Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I remember hearing a panel lecture from a companies experience when they
did their Y2K project. They went to seven digit dates. When it came time
for questions I asked them if they are going to convert again when users
try to query that data?
Dead silence.

At my first job, which was at a software vendor, all their dates were
5-digit Julian anyway. It was a closed system, with no user visibility
to naked PFs or tables. So the move to 7-digit Julian was the least
disruptive both to them and to their users.

John Y.

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