Thanks Bill, Your answers are so good they're duplicating on the RList (??)
Dennis ***** At 11:00 AM 3/24/2004 -0500, you wrote: >No, there's no consensus. People argued about it through from 1998 through >2000, the late Stephen J. Gould wrote about the history of that debate, (In >1900 and 1901 the general consensus in newspapers was that 1901 was the >begining of the century) end-times millenialists had one more excuse why >the world hadn't ended yet, and everybody who liked to party partied twice. > >Basically, people with a scientific/mathematical bent say there was no year >zero, so the first decade was years 1-10, the second decade started in 11, >the first century was 1-100, the second started in 101, etc. A more >populist tradition has said that "when the big number changes, something is >new." > >Then again, in R:Base there IS a year zero. Try this: > >SET VAR vDate1 DATE = (RDATE(1,1,0001)) >SHO V vDate1 >SET VAR vDate2 DATE = (.vDate1 - 1) >SHO V vDate2 > >I would say your customer needs to be asked to clarify their request. > > >At 10:38 AM 3/24/2004, Lichty, Tom wrote: >>Also, we had a request from a customer about archiving data before "this >>century". I always thought that meant < 1/1/2000. They pointed out it could >>also be < 1/1/2001. Is there consensus on this? > > > Dennis Fleming IISCO http://www.TheBestCMMS.com Phone: 570 775-7593 Fax: 570 775-9797 Cell: 570 351-5290
