So sorry. I jumped in to the middle of the conversation, and missed the main details.
(sent from Moto Z) On Fri, May 25, 2018, 8:34 AM karentellef via RBASE-L < rbase-l@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Bill: She's saying that NULL date values are displaying like that in a > form. > > Claudine: does the database see them as null? If you did a select where > datecol is null, do they show up? > > Karen > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bill Downall <b...@downall.us> > To: rbase-l <rbase-l@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Fri, May 25, 2018 7:19 am > Subject: Re: [RBASE-L] - Blank date value > > Claudine, > > If you can write a WHERE clause that finds all the bad dates, you should > be able to write an UPDATE that fixes them. > > Are all the wrong dates off by exactly a century? If not, you will have to > make your WHERE clause more complicated, and do this more than once. > > SELECT datecolumn FROM tablename WHERE datecolumn <= '01/01/1900' > > UPDATE tablename SET datecolumn = + > (RDATE(imon(datecolumn), iday(datecolumn), (iyr4(datecolumn) + 100 )) + > WHERE datecolumn <= '01/01/1900' > > Bill > > On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 9:50 PM, Claudine Robbins <crobb...@iexgroup.com> > wrote: > > Hello all, > > I’m on latest release. Some null values in a date field on a form are > coming up 12/30/99, fully extended to 12/30/1*8*99! There are no values > in that field in the table and the field correctly takes whatever date is > inserted and saves it to the table. > > I switched from 2-digit year to 4-digit year a few months ago and wonder > if that’s when this started. I reloaded the database, ran it through > R:Scope and all is sound. > > Any ideas on how to fix this? > > TIA, > > Claudine > -- > For group guidelines, visit > http://www.rbase.com/support/usersgroup_guidelines.php > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBASE-L" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbase-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > For group guidelines, visit > http://www.rbase.com/support/usersgroup_guidelines.php > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBASE-L" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbase-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > For group guidelines, visit > http://www.rbase.com/support/usersgroup_guidelines.php > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBASE-L" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbase-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- For group guidelines, visit http://www.rbase.com/support/usersgroup_guidelines.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBASE-L" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbase-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
