Re: About year 2000 rollover

Posted in 1996

Christopher Sharrer — Thu, 20 Jun 1996 09:01:58 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

> We ended up solving this problem ourselves by creating a year_2000() > function in 4GL which takes a dd/mm/yy date. If the yy < 96 it returns > mm/dd/20YY, otherwise it returns mm/dd/19YY. This function is called in > the after field clause of every date field throughout our applications > screens. Painful initially, but it works. > > David N. Heydon > LANGDON SYSTEMS LTD User in 2096: "Everytime I enter a date, it changes to _19_97! HELP!" ;-) -- Christopher Sharrer Luminous Chao, Inc.