Bill: Thanks for the warning.
But I rather think I'll know what I'm doing by then. bruce/safesectors > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Large integer values in Rbase v8 > From: Bill Downall <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, July 10, 2009 12:40 pm > To: [email protected] (RBASE-L Mailing List) > > > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Wills, Steve <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The cool thing is that (CTXT(JDATE())) used in this way still sorts > > exactly like INTEGER and DATE values. > > > > > > > > Ahh, but be warned: this will lead to serious problems when we roll over to > 5-digit years. the year 9999 will sort *after* the year 10000. It will be > known as the Y10K problem. > > Bill
