Re: Programming using 4GL

Andrew Burt writes: |> If you want to *really* stress out a date package, test it on September, 1752. |> This is when the pope's date correction for past extra (100not400) leap |> years was taken from the calendar. Unix's 'cal 9 1752' gets it right: |> |> |> September 1752 |> S M Tu W Th F S |> 1 2 14 15 16 |> 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 |> 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Back when I was doing a lot of training, I received a minor complaint about datetime datatypes from some guys in Europe because they don't handle the conversion from the Gregorian to the Julian calander! They felt it was of some importance for systems that track artwork, which could pre-date the time of the switch. Dave