On Thu, 2 Jan 2020 21:14:23 +0000, McCabe, Ron wrote: >From what I'm finding in our shop the date century window was 20 and it just >got bumped up to 30...so in ten years we will have to go through this again >and no will remember about it. > Dumbness is expanding: in 1965 there was a 30-year window. In 1999 designers settled for 20.
Some places had the foresight to implement a sliding window, e.g.: (Today-69,Today+30). There were probably problems when archival data unexpectedly slid off the left end. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
