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To: Bill Wexler who wrote (126)	4/20/1998 5:00:00 AM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Read Replies (1) of 888

Sorry, Bill. You made a fatal assumption. You assumed the input mechanism accounted for a 4 digit year. Most programs written in the 80s and even 90s ask for dates in mm/dd/yy format. Since, in your words, "the world doesn't run on 30 year old mainframes with ancient Cobol code", let's take a typical PC based language: dBase. * initialize variable with a blank date Birth_date = ctod(" / / ") * ask for date @ 10,25 say "Please enter birthday" get Birth_date READ Assume someone entered "04/20/00". ? YEAR(Birth_date) . 1900 Assume someone entered "04/20/99" ? YEAR(Birth_date) . 1999 As I said in my earlier post, the programmer would probably have written code to assume years of future dates should be in the 1800s and adjust accordingly. You can criticize programmers all you want about capturing dates in mm/dd/yy format, but thems the facts sir! - Jeff

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