Hi,
>Actually this is a problem for some system.. that is field based systems
>only such as COBOL FORTRAN.. ETC.. windows should not be affected..
Could you explain that ? I believe the assumption was that some
programs represent the 9/9/99 as "9999" which incidentally is
used by other/the same programs as some sort of signal.
"9999" is a string representation, so how is your program going
to figure that "9999" = "9/9/99" if it ever wants to get a useful
date back ?
Then what about "11199" ? Is that the January 11th or November 1st ?
It just doesn't work. You would at least have to use 090999 or
some format with markers, like 9/9/99 or 9.9.99. And in binary
format the date won't look like "9999" anyway.
Alexander Dietrich -> Gosh this was OT, excuse me !
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