Using 7.6, bringing pieces of a 6.5 windows app over.

Table has a column issue_date.  There is a rule on the column that the date 
cannot be > .#DATE

My date settings are:
date format        mm/dd/yy
date sequence   mmddyy
threshold year    88
century              19

In 6.5, if they wanted to type in a date of 1/1/1967, they could type it in 
the form with the full 4 digits, it would save properly, and would not 
violate the rule.  If they had typed in 1/1/67 by itself, it would violate the 
rule because it would think it was 2067.

In 7.6, if you type in the 4-digit year, the first 2 digits disappear when 
you leave the field, so you just see the "67".    And apparently it is 
evaluated as 2067 and violates the rule.  There appears to be no way to type in 
1967 if you have the sequence mmddyy.   Is that true??

I really don't want to change the sequence to mmddyyyy because 99% of the 
time they will be typing in the year 2011.   This application is very heavy 
into dates, and this is the first form I'm converting.  It's disheartening to 
have this problem right off the bat!

I'm hoping someone has a workaround for me?   Thanks!

Karen
 

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